The Customer Application creates an MFClient object via the static factory function provided by the MFAPI. The Customer Application provides the hostname / IP, port and credentials (username, password assigned by MarketFactory and unique to each Customer Application). Two Customer Applications using the same credentials cannot connect at the same time. If this happens, the second MFClient object will receive USER_ALREADY_CONNECTED upon calling .connect(). The original user session remains unaffected. If, however, the already-connected user has been detected as idle for greater than the server-side "timeoutClient" idle time then the second connection takes over.
Creating the MFClient object establishes a TCP connection between the Customer Application and the Whisperer application.
Figure 8.1. – Connection lifecycle showing clean disconnection from Whisperer
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