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Re: Network license control for a Java application

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On 05/21/2012 02:08 AM, Qu0ll wrote:
> I have been tasked with providing some form of network license control
> for a Java application. The app would be stored on a network drive and
> run from a client machine. The basic idea is that it will be able to
> work out how many times it is being run concurrently and prevent the
> N+1th user from running the software where N is the number of concurrent
> licenses the customer has purchased.
>
My first idea would be to have the application open a connection to a 
"license server" that would only accept N connections. With some sort of 
keep-alive packet you could time out systems that crashed. (I have seen 
windows systems crash and leave TCP/IP connections open).

Jeff Coffield
www.digitalsynergyinc.com

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Network license control for a Java application "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2012-05-21 19:08 +1000
  Re: Network license control for a Java application Hatter Jiang <jht5945@gmail.com> - 2012-05-21 05:04 -0700
  Re: Network license control for a Java application "Jeffrey H. Coffield" <jeffrey@digitalsynergyinc.com> - 2012-05-21 07:47 -0700
    Re: Network license control for a Java application Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2012-05-21 09:48 -0700
      Re: Network license control for a Java application "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2012-06-02 13:01 +1000
        Re: Network license control for a Java application "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2012-06-15 19:31 +1000

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