Dear Monks,

I am looking for an application server recommendation.

The application server is required to listen on the network, and trigger a variety of processes, written in Perl. It must support multiple simultaneous connections - up to perhaps a 100 or so concurrently. It does not need to wait around and dish out much response to the client - it only needs to return 'request acknowledged / unknown', and can then end the communication , and proceed to do something useful.

It will have to support a despatch mechanism, which I am happy to implement, to manage resource usage and contention. Primary usage is *nix, but it needs to be able to run on WinXP, though single threaded mode would be fine here. User authentication is not really required, though a basic lightweight implementation might be interesting.

I was wondering about Apache2/mod_perl (but am currently uncertain as to what happens on the server if the client closes the connection - I feel a test coming on...),

other possible candidates include POE and bivio.

Do the Monks have any experience or recommendations to share?

Regards & thanks,

Jeff

In reply to Perl application server recommendation by jaa

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