zmapServer - thread based external interfaces

Summary

Modules

The zmapServer module exist to provide concurrent thread base interfaces to external databases. It uses the zmapThread module.

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zmapServer is the front end that is used by zmapView etc to request data.
zmapServerProtocolHandler interfaces between zmapServer and the thread base servers.
acedb/, DAS, and pipe/ are the servers that run in these threads.

Related pages

zmapView contains some notes about requesting data from pipeServer modules and other issues.

pipeServer details usage of that module.