Talin wrote:
>
> There have been a number of attempts, such as FastCGI and others, to
> overcome the performance problems of CGIs, in particular the need to start a
> new shell process with each request. Most of these schemes involve something
> like mod_jserv, where an apache module communicates with a persistent
> process that holds the actual page generation code. However, each of the
> schemes I have seen is rather ad hoc, targeted towards a particular
> appserver implementation or a particular language. In other words, there's
> nothing along the lines of the CGI standard for "resident" programs.
>
> It occurs to me that there is very little in the mod_jserv and the apjxxx
> protocols that is specific to Java. Would it be possible to make a
> mod_appserver or something like this, based on mod_jserv, that would allow
> application servers to be written in any language?
>
> In other words, what I would like to see is a language-neutral application
> interface, along the lines of the CGI standard, except that it would be
> oriented towards application servers. The Apache module would be one
> implementation of this standardized interface.
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JServ is slowly being replaced by jakarta-tomcat. There are some
"major" reworks being done to the mod_jserv portion including protocol
work and breaking it apart so that it works better across
Apache/IIS/NES. Any comments should be addressed there.
Kevin
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