Thats actually what I was considering doing, based on what I understand POE is capable of, and after reading Rocco Caputo's documentation. The only problem is that I've had the fear struck into me about the complexity of using POE. But if thats really the best way to do it then I definitely would love an excuse to learn.

The reason for this little system is to capture stock values from a constantly updating stream and send them to a java application from the http stream. There are 2 streams and I'd like to throttle them and use one for primary and the other as an active/passive failover.

Any recommended POE howtos? I've seen a few but some are far better than others.

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