Hi, This last thread has been very interesting. This is what I am hearing.
To build a Perl Application Server, use Apache+mod_perl for processing of backend functions *as well as* interacting with the users. Although the Apache server only listens for HTTP requests, other timed and system events can be "injected" into the app server using an HTTP request (using LWP perhaps) from small programs waiting on those events (time elapsed/cron/at, resource becomes available, IO unblocks, etc.). (Presumably it is not outside this central vision too much to have separate Apache/mod_perl server sets serving the "user requests" and the "system requests" if it is desired.) This concept for a Perl Application Server based on Apache/mod_perl is promoted by: Rob Nagler http://archive.develooper.com/p5ee%40perl.org/msg01146.html Perrin Harkins http://archive.develooper.com/p5ee%40perl.org/msg01163.html Others tend to concur. Bas Schulte http://archive.develooper.com/p5ee%40perl.org/msg01195.html Matt Sergeant http://archive.develooper.com/p5ee%40perl.org/msg01191.html While others had reservations, and thought that separate backend application servers were more appropriate for various reasons. Gunther Birznieks http://archive.develooper.com/p5ee%40perl.org/msg01151.html Aaron Johnson http://archive.develooper.com/p5ee%40perl.org/msg01164.html http://archive.develooper.com/p5ee%40perl.org/msg01170.html Others simply weighed in to say that a solution to the "Perl Application Server" problem would be highly desirable. Nigel Hamilton http://archive.develooper.com/p5ee%40perl.org/msg01196.html The other main candidate proposed for a framework for a Perl Application Server was POE. Rocco Caputo http://archive.develooper.com/p5ee%40perl.org/msg01149.html http://poe.perl.org/?POE_Cookbook/Application_Servers Gunther Birznieks http://archive.develooper.com/p5ee%40perl.org/msg01159.html Is this an accurate reflection of people's views? Stephen P.S. Besides my interactive processes (interacting with the users) and my queue worker (data collection) processes, I also have a nightly batch which loads data files which have been FTP'ed to the server from another Reservations System vendor. Do Rob/Perrin/others recommend that this also be done by Apache children? If I understand the proposal correctly, the answer would be yes.
