Re: asynchronous execution, was Re: implementing a set of queue-processing servers

Bas A.Schulte wrote:
> none of
> them seemed to be stable/fast under heavy load even though I would have 
> preferred that as it would allow me to do something to handle 
> data-sharing between children via the parent which always seems to be in 
> issue in Apache/mod_perl.

What are you trying to share?  In addition to Rob's suggestion of using 
a database table (usually the best for important data or clustered 
machines) there are other approaches like IPC::MM and MLDBM::Sync.

> Basically, I need some way to 
> coordinate the children so each child can find out what the other 
> children are doing.

Either of the approaches I just mentioned would be fine for this.

> BTW: I've been reading up a lot on J2EE lately and it appears more and 
> more that a J2EE app server could quite nicely provide for my needs 
> (despite all shortcomings and issues of course).

What is it that you think you'd be getting that you don't have now?

- Perrin