Paul Querna wrote: > I propose the creation of a new Apache Lab, called "dworker". > > dworker, the distributed task execution system. > > With the increasing prevalence AJAX/JSON techniques, there is a need to > produce web content, with the lowest latency as possible. Due to many > legacy systems which have blocking APIs, it is not always easy to > parallelize requests that need to talk to many backend systems. dworker > provides an alternative where the calls to blocking APIs can be executed > in parallel. > > This project consists of two major components; The client API and the > server. > > The server on startup will load a set of user created shared objects, > which contain the code to be ran as tasks. These tasks contain a unique > identifier, which the client knows, and can use to invoke them. > > The clients will have a bulk-task API, where tasks would be distributed > among the available servers. When invoking a task the client would > send any parameters for the task to the server. When the task is > complete, any return data will be sent back to the client. > > DOAP File: > http://people.apache.org/~pquerna/dworker-doap.xml
dude, I *totally* was thinking about writing something like this today. definitely +1 -- Stefano. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
