From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2006-09-25T07:52:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for Webric example code

On 24 Sep 2006, at 22:57, Dmitri Kondratiev wrote:
> Thanks for update! I am thinking about using Webric for lightweight
> REST-full protocol between WEB peers. In other words I need embedable
> WEB server that will allow sevral apps exchange messages using simple
> protocol on top of HTTP (get & post + params).

I spent several months earlier in the year working on something very  
similar (all closed-source unfortunately) and WEBrick provided a good  
base.

> The main question here: can Webric be embeded in another  
> application so
> threads of this app will not be blocked and will continue to work
> without starvation. In fact, application I am talking about may use
> variable number of threads growing  from 1 to 100 at different times
> (these in addition to Webric threads).

Well WEBrick uses its own thread pool and seems to do a pretty good  
job of managing it, but they are green threads so you'll have to make  
sure that none of the threads in your application are blocking or  
else the whole thing will stall. Depending upon your platform and how  
computationally intensive your application threads are you may run  
into some latency problems, but I doubt this will be the case with  
the number of threads in question. If latencies do ocur you might  
like to look at using dRb (distributed Ruby) to run some of your  
computationally intensive tasks in separate processes.

Ellie


Eleanor McHugh
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