Re: PlRPC vs POE as core P5EE Server

At 02:10 PM 4/26/2002 -0400, Rocco Caputo wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 01:05:13PM -0400, Stephen Adkins wrote:
....
>[Sabre requests often take a long time.]
....
>A general three-step pattern has emerged for handling blocking network
>libraries in POE.
>
>1. Have the library send the request (blocking if necessary).
>2. Wait asynchronously for the socket to become ready.
>3. Receive the response (blocking if necessary).
>
>The pattern requires three conditions to be met:
>
>1. The request and response functions are or can be separate.
>2. The library exposes a file handle or descriptor to be waited on.
>3. The blocking send and receive functions don't take very long once
>   the file is ready to be worked with.
>
>In practice, conditions 1 and 2 are toss-ups, although sometimes they
>can be worked around.  Condition 3 is often true, though.

Hi,

Thanks for the guidelines.  They make perfect sense.
In this case, the Sabre library fails condition 2, while meeting
conditions 1 and 3.

Stephen