You dont mention the kind of backend process you want to talk to, but you may well be interested in this post I wrote about lift-amqp: http://is.gd/CkPX
Included is a neat example of how you can get inter-process communication using middleware messaging and it explains in fair detail the AMQP implementation in Lift. Perhaps you could send messages to and from your backend from your lift app? Cheers, Tim On Jul 10, 1:27 am, Vlad Seryakov <[email protected]> wrote: > I am building Web application using Lift (my first one) which is the > port of existing Tcl/Aolserver based application. In the existing one > i have two parts: Web and backend. Backedn part consists of jobs > running in the background from time to time using schedule or on > demand. I am trying to figure out the architecture and practical way > of doing this in servlet/Lift environment. I used to have telnet > interface but this is not a requirement, i can test using special > temporary Web interface. Is there any recommendation or experience > regarding such applications? > for example, i have special job for importing huge Xml files into the > database. The problem of loading big Xml files in Scala is already a > challenge but for now i assume i have unlimited memory. The problem i > have how to test it. Using scala interpreter mode i could test the Xml > loading and parsing, now i need to load it into database and i have > Mapper setup for my schema. Calling this job from simple Web snippet > is my only choice? > > Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
