Re: Concept for an Apache/mod_perl Perl Application Server

Matt,

On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 10:08 PM, Matt Sergeant wrote:

> On Tuesday, Nov 26, 2002, at 17:41 Europe/London, Bas A.Schulte wrote:
>
>> I did take a look at POE, and still do now and then, but I just don't 
>> seem to get it's concepts to actually get something done on top of it. 
>> Recently I tried one of the examples on poe.perl.org 
>> (http://poe.perl.org/?Poe_cookbook/Web_Server_With_Forking) briefly 
>> but it wasn't very fast, even for NOOP requests.
>
> POE isn't terribly fast, because it has to do a lot of management on 
> top of its server system. Where you gain is in sharing - you don't have 
> to jump through hoops to share data (except in a multi-server system).

I've really tried several times to get into POE because I've read good 
things about from people whose opinion I value (you're actually one of 
them).

My personal gripe with POE is: I don't get it! Wheels? Heaps? Kernel?

I'm an OO guy: I like a good object model, I like Sun's java coding 
guidelines, I like verbose. I hate $_, I loathe 6 lines regexes.

It might be very possible to put an OO layer on top of POE to create an 
app server but for the life of it, I don't know how.

I've done that on top of Net::Server::PreFork which gave me a nice and 
easy OO layer to work with, but if I look at the preforking server POE 
example (http://poe.perl.org/?POE_Cookbook/Web_Server_With_Forking), I 
don't even know where to begin.

I guess POE and I have an impedance mismatch somewhere...

Just my 2 cents.