On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 21:27, Perrin Harkins wrote:
>
> It sounds like the limitation there is that you're interfacing with systems
> that can't notify you when something new happens. That's not Perl's fault.
> If you wrote your daemons in Java alpahabet soup, they'd still have to poll
> the pop3 server.
Well, I'd more likely be using a standard javamail API within the
context of a EJB server. There is a fairly rich set of call backs there
which mean I generally don't have to poll/sleep etc. Also true of the
java message service.
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