Spread?

Hi,

On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 07:42 AM, Perrin Harkins wrote:

> I think message beans do sound attractive in this situation, and there 
> is some infrastructure code to write here on the Perl side (putting 
> messages in the database, reading them back out of it, triggering the 
> appropriate handling code, and maybe throttling if you can find a way 
> to make it generic enough).  It wouldn't be hard to make some modules 
> that do what I described with cron, an RDBMS, and mod_perl, and that 
> might be a good addition to CPAN.  Or maybe a generalization of Jason's 
> Spread::Queue is in order.  People do seem to bring up messaging/queues 
> a lot on this list.

I would be interested in people's experience using Spread (from perl). 
What are you doing with it from a functional point of view? How well 
does it work? Likes/dislikes?

I'm mostly interested in it being used for one-to-one or one-to-many 
publishing of reliable/ordered messages.

One other thing: from reading the docs it appears Spread itself doesn't 
do persistent storage of messages (i.e. a receiver is unavailable), Did 
you solve that? If so, how?

Thanks for any feedback,

Bas.