request input on client/server design

Hi there,

I'm considering doing a project that involves collaborative client/server application involving chat, whiteboard, VoiP, etc.

My question is this...would each aspect of the project (chat, whiteboard,etc) require that it run on a seperate port to the server? Is that normal from a design perspective? I'm thinking a seperate thread on the server listening on different ports: one for the chat (port 2000), one for the whiteboard(port 2001), one for VoiP(port 2002), etc.

I'm only thinking of this approach as being favourable because the types of data being moved back and forth would be different on each port. Does this make sense? Are there some other approaches to this type of project?

Alan

[738 byte] By [ashiersa] at [2007-11-27 2:11:51]