SimpleXMLRPCServer

[PhysicsGenius]

Jeremy Jones wrote:
> Istvan Albert wrote:
> 
>> Yannick Turgeon wrote:
>>
>>> "Simple". What are its limitations? 
>>
>>
>>
>> No limitations whatsoever ...  it is "Simple" to use
>>
>> :-0
>>
>> Istvan.
>>
> Simple indeed.  I don't know for sure the reasons for naming it 
> "Simple".  But it may have to do with the fact that the out-of-the-box 
> SimpleXMLRPCServer will only handle one request at a time: a request 
> comes in, the server accepts that request, blocking until the method 
> call returns, and the response is sent back to the client.  It does not 
> spawn a thread per request.  It does not "select" among multiple 
> requests.  It will not create a thread pool for you.  If you want that 
> added functionality, you can write a little custom code to get it to 
> spawn a thread per request.  A little more code to only spawn n number 
> of threads.  A little more code still to create a thread pool.  And if 
> you want a server that "select"s among multiple requests, I'm not 100% 
> sure, but I bet Twisted has one of those.

I have a non-threaded, select()ing SimpleXML-RPC 
server.  I have stressed it yet, but I have 
verified that the concept works.