On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, kevin montuori wrote:
> i'm not sure about "all handlers, all the time" but a good deal
> of what i'm using mod_perl for is session management, credential
> maintenance, custom logging, on-the-fly compression, and other
> "housekeeping" tasks. i think only 10% of my handlers are
> content handlers, the other 90% do things neither CGI nor an
> application server are going to do.
in fact, these are exactly the problems ao is meant to
solve. the idea is that for now, we provide a presentation
tier environment with hooks to allow you to integrate middle
tier functionality, but eventually it would be nice to also
create a real j2ee like environment with separate front and
middle tiers, where presentation and business logic can be
varied and scaled separately.
> if for no other reason than time to market, it's nice to have
> access to the server API in Perl rather than C. it took only
> hours to whomp up handlers to help integrate netegrity's
> siteminder product into our existing site; it would have been
> weeks if it had to be written in C.
yup, it's always going to be nice to have direct access to
low-level components. as someone pointed out earlier, some
people will always require it. i'm shooting to make 80% of
people happy rather than 20%.
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