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Over the last couple of months I've been working on some implementations of sockets servers in C++ and Java. I wrote a small server in Java that would handle & process input from a flash application hosted on a website and I managed to successfully write a server that handles input from a 2D game client with multiple players in C++. I used TCP in one project & UDP in the other one. Now, I do have some questions that I couldn't really find on the net and I hope that some of the experts could help me. :) Let's say I would like to build a server in C++ that would handle the input from thousands of standalone and/or web applications, how should I design my server then? So far, I usually create a new & unique thread for each user that connects, but I doubt this is the way to go. Also, How does one determine the layout of packets sent over the network; is data usually sent over the network in a binary or text state? How do you handle serializated objects when you send data to different media (eg C++ server to flash application)? And last, is there any easy to use library which is commonly used that supports portability (eg development on a windows machine & deployment on a linux box) other than boost asio. Thank you.

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