We're completing our own Tcl-to-SQL library, and have the opportunity of
implementing the SQL library with async-calls.
So, for example, a SQL select query would have some --code "..." associated
with it, that runs once the SQL select query completes
The reason I bring this up here, is that instead of using multithreading
inside TclHttpd, we'd prefer to use the single-threaded version of
TclHttpd, and pages that render asynchronously, when the operation
completes. I have some ideas on how I could hack TclHttpd to do this, but
I'm wondering (Brent?) if there could be a standard mechanism for doing
this. Perhaps one could register a page as "unfinished" and then call a
"finisher" proc once the page was available.
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About our TclDBTools library:
We're using Rogue Wave's DBTools library (a commercial C++ library
(www.roguewave.com), and it will support Oracle, ODBC, Microsoft-SQL,
Sybase, DB2 & Informix, all native, on both Unix and Windows. We're going
to make the library open-source and available to all, in a few weeks.
