[Web-SIG] Web Site Process Bus

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 02:41 PM 6/25/2007 -0700, Robert Brewer wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> > Meanwhile, if you get a start call, you must be starting, right?  So
> > why worry about the state?  It'd be simpler to just use
> > "before/during/after" messages the way Twisted does.  Your "block"
> > example could be replaced by waiting for the "after" message of the
> > desired state, for example.
>
>I just realized I haven't really explained what "start" and "stop" mean.
>I think you might expect it to mean "beginning of process" and "exit the
>process". But instead, I'm envisioning a FSM that has an "idle" state
>in-between process init/exit and "server" start/stop, so that, without
>restarting the process, you can stop and restart (un/bind the socket,
>etc) the server components. This should also facilitate a daemon parent
>process having a single site Bus and starting/stopping child processes
>that contain the WSGI app and server components, if that's the way you
>want to compose your site.

Now I'm really confused.  What is the idle state *for*?  This seems 
to imply that you need these states to exist for distinct components 
in a single process -- which would be a finer-grained sort of "bus" 
than has been discussed at this point, at least as far as I understand it.