Re: Automating network testing with POE (web services IPC)

Nick, thanks for the help.  IKC seems great for most of this.....what about
the future if I wanted to swap out a a perl worker for a C worker? Would I
use JSONRPC instead of IKC for my communication? Would it be easy to
mix/match?

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Nick Perez <[email protected]> wrote:

> It really sounds like you need to segregate the webapp from the actual
> daemon. And with that, you do not need to run POE within mod_perl (not
> that you could anyhow). But you obviously need POE communication
> between the web server and the POE daemon. So I recommend using
> POE::Component::IKC::ClientLite
> (http://search.cpan.org/~gwyn/POE-Component-IKC-0.2003/IKC/ClientLite.pm<http://search.cpan.org/%7Egwyn/POE-Component-IKC-0.2003/IKC/ClientLite.pm>
> ).
> As for worker/controller interaction, IKC can serve those needs too,
> without having to involve a protocol layer beyond a TCP socket and the
> serializer that IKC uses.
>