...and to Voltron's comment on middleware, I think I agree (middleware being more broadly useful) - but I think these are separate things serving separate kinds of needs
On Oct 9, 5:13 pm, yarko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...yes (to Massimo's comment), and what I'm thinking is something like > the background separate server that has no views, but rather accepts > remote calls from other web2py apps to process asyncchronously; > > achipa want to do cleanup; > someone else may want to send notification emails from a separate > collector of notification events (not just a simple e-mailer); > ... and so on... > > so lighter weight than XML-RPC, but in that general concept... > > Anyway, that's how I was thinking of this - and I don't know if it > makes sense, would be useful. > > I was just thinking out load, exploring what _might_ make sense.... > > Yarko > > On Oct 9, 4:20 pm, mdipierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think we are talking about something else here. "services" in this > > thread should be read more like "deamons". specifically programs that > > are triggered by events, run in background and are not connected to > > normal IO. > > > achipa wants the ability to start threads from within web2py to do > > database cleanup or other repeated tasks. > > > Massimo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
