Re: What About Price vs. Performance

[Rob Dixon <rob.dixon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan


> You're the 2nd person to ask, Rob.  Well, I've been building a framework of
> servers and service programs to make it easier to build Web applications
> using ILE languages.  For the best possible performance, I decided to use a
> message interface between the HTTP Server, and the ILE application.  The ILE
> application is in a data queue wait state, until a Web request arrives.  A
> message interface appears to cut CPU time in half, compared to dynamic CGI
> calls.
>
> The ILE application is in a loop.  The basic steps are:
>
> 1. Wait for request to arrive on queue.
> 2. Receive request.
> 3. Retrieve user state from previous requests.
> 4. Process request, build HTML response.
> 5 Save current user state.
>
> The cycle continues.

Many thanks.  You used the phrase  "message server plug-in"  and I imagined that
you were talking about a new type of browser plug-in.

>
>
> ----------------- Original ---------------------------
> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 19:14:26 +0100
> From: Rob Dixon <rob.dixon@erros.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: What About Price vs. Performance?
>
> Nathan
>
> > I wrote a "message server plug-in" for the OS/400 HTTP server that
> > interfaces with an RPG program.
>
> Please tell us more
>
> Best wishes
>
> Rob
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