Jon,
Warning: I have a lot more "book learning" than real experience here.
On the wiki you'll find an example called "ForEachForkActionHandler' or
similar. Check it out.
Re join: Updating process variables to show status is trivial - you can just
use script if you want. If all you need is a
Thanks Ed. Sounds like there are a few different ways to do it.
Requirements:
* child process does not need to be independent of the parent process... that
is we can write the parent & child together has a pair (or even a single
process definition).
* user wants to be able to monitor the parent
Jon,
If the child processes are really trivial, and you don't need to be able to
deploy new versions of them independently, then maybe just fork. Otherwise,
probably subprocess.
Another thing to consider is what monitoring and/or intervention you will need
on the child processes. If you ne