On Aug 4, 2004, at 12:17 PM, Jeff Bisbee wrote:
* Jay Hannah (jhannah@omnihotels.com) wrote:In terms of pure multitasking capacity and maintenance... (Process 100 simultaneous inbound requests)Is POE typically used on top of Apache/mod_perl? Instead of Apache/mod_perl?Neither, POE is basically a perl kernel centered around slicing executioninto tiny bits so they don't block. (at its core its an event loop with hires time stamps so you can schedule events to execute in the future)
-ponder- For some reason I had the idea stuck in my noggin that POE was an OO Perl application server in a box. Since my only concrete application server experience is with Apache/mod_perl, I was curious about that relationship...
I understand you use a lot of POE @ work. I figured that was (at least partially) to support the web sites you run? Are you using Apache? Or do the POE boxes live elsewhere in your enterprise?
j