Unfortunately, I cannot contribute as much as I would like to the Webware development process, so it is hard for me be too critical of the Webware developers. I suspect that many of the developers are in a similar situation (too busy USING the tool to make a living to have time to IMPROVE the tool). Perhaps if I was able to use Webware at work, I would be able to spend time giving back to the project. But alas, the corporate mindset where I work has dictated that our product, which is currently implemented in Python CGI, will be re-written under J2EE. Even if Python was approved for continued development, I think I would have a hard time convincing management to commit to Webware without some significant changes to Webware's apparent stability/maturity and percieved development status. There would also have to be some changes to Webkit to make it scale across multiple machines. Our CGI application currently runs on 13 web servers behind an IP sprayer. Moving to a long-running process like Webkit would make it much more efficient. However, we would still need it to work cleanly on more than one app-server. The issue of sharing session data between app-servers is probably the largest issue that would need to be resolved. My experience with Webkit so far has been that it is not designed with this type of environment in mind, though I don't think it wouldn't take much to fix it.
I'm coming in a bit late on this, but wouldn't a database-backed session be the easiest way to implement shared sessions? Hrm... I thought Webware actually included such a thing; but anyway, it seems very easy to implement, could be based 100% on the DB-API and primitive SQL (avoiding database compatibility issues and other dependencies), and would be a nice, reasonably scalable shared session. And we all have databases of one sort or another (at least if we're worried about this kind of scaling), so it seems like an easy solution. SessionFileStore would probably be the simplest example to base this on.
-- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org
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