Richard wrote:
> G'day
Hi Richard, nice to spot ya again. Have they not kicked you out
of Florida yet? <g>
> When building web server apps for IIS especially MIDAS ones, one of the
> guys I work with has found that IIS holds onto it preventing him from
> recompiling it without a reboot. My Web knowledge is patchy, has anyone
> got this and found a simple solution to bring back the RAD.
AFAIK, there is no easy solution, i.e. IIS stop/restart is optimal.
Better, though, is to adopt the same kind of approach as
WebHub does, which is the "runner" concept. That is, have a
small part of the logic which is in a DLL, hence part of the IIS
memory space, and UNCHANGING. The rest of the logic
(anything you expect to change) is in a separate EXE which can
be altered at will.
In WebHub's case, the runner basically handles the ISAPI
interface and request queuing control. Verra nice when it comes
to IIS-based site maintenance, and, not insignificantly, also gives
the Webapps near-complete server independence.
Hopefully, the MIDSA architecture won't prevent your guy from
implementing *something* to achieve the same maintenance
benefit, at least.
> BTW: Nice work on the wallabies at Eden Park, I bought a digital dish so I
> could get the rugby over here in the US, and despite being a West Islander
> the first 30 minutes had me damn impressed.
We was somewhat gob-smacked at the quality of it ourselves -- a
chance coming for a repeat performance on the 'Boks on
Sunday.
cheers,
peter
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