Thank you all for all your responses.

Cheers.
Alejandro.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Stefan de Konink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>> Most modern webservers (Cherokee included) favor you having an
>> application server, and providing just a thin layer - a simple
>> connection (i.e. via FastCGI) from the Webserver to it.
>>
>> This has several advantages, besides sheer code footprint and
>> simplicity - One of them is effective privilege separation. By running
>> separate application servers, connected to Cherokee by a socket or
>> similar means, each of them can run as a different user (even on a
>> different machine), but be managed and accessed from the same single
>> source.
>>
>> Now, I'm _not_ a Cherokee programmer, just a humble packager :-)
>
> I partly agree with you on a point. But from my own experience with
> Cherokee where I really create applications inside Cherokee instead of
> 'external' one it is *extremely* simple to create an extension. If you
> then look at what is possible and the performance gain you can get by
> using Cherokee as an application server itself it might be feasible for
> some people to code C for the web again ;)
>
> In that perspective you could try to create handler_java, that is able
> to server request, and use another instance of cherokee to do the actual
> load balancing on a different system, which make it scalable.
>
>
> Stefan
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