Pierpaolo Fumagalli wrote:
>
> "Kevin A. Burton" wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Send this to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > 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.
>
> Being the first writer of mod_jserv, I tend to agree w/ you, and also I
> know that Costin was thinking about changing it right to address those
> issues... (mod_relay)
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Yeah. Good point. If you are really interested here check out the
mod_relay discussions on tomcat-dev about a month ago. I really liked
the CORBA discussion and how some CORBA impls short-circuit themselves
if they are running locally. Don't know if that is the perfect solution
but it is kind of cool :)
Kevin
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