Re3: sharing a complex set of objects between httpd processes

This actually brings up an interesting issue - is there some clean and easy implementation that does this application server-type thing? I would suppose you can create a SOAP::Lite server or something, but it sounds like it would involve a lot of bandwidth ...

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Re: Re3: sharing a complex set of objects between httpd processes by perrin (Chancellor) on Mar 17, 2003 at 16:34 UTC
Which application server-type thing is that? I've never found any problem with using mod_perl as an application server. Can you define something that you need which you don't get from mod_perl plus some CPAN modules?	[reply]
Re5: sharing a complex set of objects between httpd processes by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Mar 17, 2003 at 17:55 UTC
I'm talking about that place to put Singletons and the like. Web server (Apache/mod_perl) registry / CGI files Other place(s) (like your DB singleton, etc) ------ We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age. Don't go borrowing trouble. For programmers, this means Worry only about what you need to implement. Please remember that I'm crufty and crochety. All opinions are purely mine and all code is untested, unless otherwise specified.	[reply]
Re: Re5: sharing a complex set of objects between httpd processes by perrin (Chancellor) on Mar 17, 2003 at 18:25 UTC
But it's a solution looking for a problem. There's nothing that actually requires a singleton, which is why people have been successfully writing multi-process servers (Oracle, for example) for so many years. Data sharing, coordination of resources -- these things can all be done with basic IPC techniques.	[reply]