Socket connection performance

Hi,

While writing one simple chat application i got one doubt .
Suppose ,if i am chatting with single person ,i will establish socket connection with that client and send message to that client to particular port.Once i finsh chat i will close socket connection.

Now if i want to chat with more people say 100 people(just an example) at a time .then is it good to create 100 different socket connection?

Where as in database we normally use Connection pool,so i can reuse already created object.Do we have same think in socket connection?

I have a doubt because in database we are connection to one single databae ,so i can reuse already created one.But for doing chat i may have to connect to different IP address and port .

If number of clent increase socket connection also increases ..so i think there will be performance drawback in this application.Can any one of you tell me how to overcome this problem

Depends on your clients. If they don't know anything about sockets, then how could you "connect" to them?

If they are socket-driven, have them connect to a socket server, and include support for multi-casting in your server software.

Hi Hung,

... and include support for multi-casting in your server software.

Can you please elaborate this ...i didn't got what you said

Have a look at this article on multicasting. Multicasting has its own set of disadvantages, so there are tradeoffs made when using it.