Re: Post about a Apache/mod_perl based component/service architecture

On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 05:14 PM, Matt Sergeant wrote:

>> every time i look at poe my head spins and i am reminded
>> exactly how much of a novice i really am.
>
> I had this problem too, until I figured out that it's just terminology
> that was confusing me. That's why I'm giving a POE tutorial at the perl
> conference this year to help clear up some of this confusion. 
> Conceptually
> POE is actually really simple, once you get past the documentation ;-)

Ok, that is good to hear. I always thought I was too ignorant too 
understand it ;) I suppose POE indeed uses a somewhat strange 
terminology (wheels?).

But isn't it a point of p5ee to normalize/standardize the terminology? 
In that respect, would it be possible to use POE at a lower level 
underneath an API(s) that is more in line with p5ee, terminoloy-wise? I 
don't understand enough of it to assess that.

A thought: would it be possible to somehow use POE as a container in 
which Wombat runs? Though Wombat is intended to run servlets in it might 
be generalized to run general handlers that are run upon receipt of a 
request with the addition of timers etc..

On the other hand, POE is about cooperative multitasking I believe which 
might not be such a good base to start with...

In a more general way I think p5ee needs something to easily implement a 
"components with services" architecture (which I partially "solved" by 
using an Apache/mod_perl instance per component and HTTP/Storable for 
services).

Regards,

Bas.

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