"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.
>
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> 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)
Pier
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