I think it's an awesome idea. It's something I've always wanted to do
but never had the time. Are you a student? This would make a great
Google Summer of Code project.
Have you looked at CMS pipelines?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmann_pipeline
http://www.vm.ibm.com/pipelines/
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=cms+pipelines
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Rocco Caputo - rcap...@pobox.com
On Mar 12, 2010, at 14:19, Zero Hero wrote:
I was wondering if anyone had created the "analog of the Unix
Pipeline" for
POE.
This would let someone compose stages whose inputs were essentially
lists of
objects to be processed. The "Pipeline Controller" would handle all
the
heavy
lifting (e.g. flow control, signals such as "closing", "fatal"
stages).
The stages wouldn't be processes, but event driven things, like most
POE
things.
There's a fair amount of cleverness required. Also some interesting
things
that could be done with persistance (e.g. objects between stages for
"lossless"
processing), pipeline construction, and management.
Thanks,
Zero
