Python App Server Advice

[Graeme Matthew]

thanks for all yuor input much appreciated, im now on my last task before
the server is ready getting pyApache to work after ditching mod_python as I
could not get it working on linux only windows


cheers

"Graeme Matthew" <gsmatthew at ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
news:XQSBa.343$DL6.15721 at nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...
> Hi all
>
> I have written a multithreaded app server that accepts incoming XML
> requests. My aim is to create apool of database connections and load all
> xslt template files when the server is started. I am using pyApache so
> inerpreter startup costs are nil. The area that is concerning me is for
> every web request a socket connection will need to be made to the
appserver,
> the cgi args formatted into xml then send to the model layer (appserver)
and
> wait while it processes it and then recieve html page and then print back
to
> the client. I am looking at it this way, there will be no cost in creating
> database connections and reading templates form disk so I figured that
> equals out the socket connection cost on each request ?
>
> any advice would be most welcome or even ugly criticism as I would like to
> get the architecture right before writing lots of code ....
>
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> many thanks
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