I have created a Windows Service running on Windows Server 2003 using the Win32::Daemon module from http://www.roth.net/perl/Daemon.

I am using SOAP::Lite to communicate with an Apache CGI/Perl web front end for a MySQL database. In the main loop/thread, I make periodic SOAP requests to the Apache server to see if there are any jobs assigned in the database to the machine running the Windows Service daemon.

If a new job is requested, I spawn a new thread to run the job and then detach to let the main service thread loop again. In the job thread, I can communicate with the Apache server using SOAP to update the database that the job is complete.

On start up of the Windows Service, I start a new thread and detach to create a SOAP daemon using SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Daemon. This means that I can make SOAP requests into the Windows Service to get information about how many jobs have been run, time running, threads completed, thread count, etc.

I would like to be able to communicate using SOAP from the Apache CGI/Perl web front end to get the current status and administrate the Windows Service. For instance, I would like to change logging settings or tell a thread running a job to terminate the job.

My question is how do I make the design of this Windows Service clean and how do I share data between threads and packages?

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

In reply to Windows Services, Win32::Daemon, Threading, and SOAP::Lite by hackdaddy

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