Hello, On 02/05/2003 09:04 PM, Edgar Castanedo wrote:
Yes, people really lacks of application server "mode" where you can run persistent scripts outside of the Web server. There are some attempts to this but I was not impressed by any.believe PHP outshines them all. I am interested in heading an opensource PHP project. Basically it is the development of a PHP application server. Currently, there is nothing out there like this for PHP which I believe is widely supported or known about. I would like to kickstart the development of this product which will take PHP to a different level.My reasons for wanting to do this are many, one of which is the fact that many other programming/scripting languages have an application server which they run on. Apache can be set up to communicate with them. PHP does not currently have this. Right now, there is only a mod_php and basic cgi integration versions. I have spoken with many people and I feel like this can take off. As a matter of fact, I have documented many of my ideas and would like to share them with all of you.
Things that an application server should do is to manage persistent resources to handle special application requests keeping the status of resources in memory to avoid repeated expensive data fetching from slow storage containers like databases. It should handle request serving distribution with balancing and failover, automated request scheduling.
I don't know what you have in mind, but I think it would be appropriate to develop a new SAPI driver that would make PHP run as standalone daemon accepting many custom protocol requests in parallel. All this is better said than done because it is not a trivial matter. In any case, good luck.
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Regards,
Manuel Lemos
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