[Zope3-dev] Twisted Zope

[Jim Fulton]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just put together a basic bridge between the Twisted HTTP server and
> Zope X3.  I've attached it.  Check it out!  It's only a little grotty. ;-)
> 
> Note that it is single-threaded and does not use ZConfig for port and log
> file configuration.  In the application I'm building, Twisted runs
> multiple services, only one of which is Zope, and everything uses ZODB. 
> In a scenario like mine, I think the safety of single-threaded programming
> outweighs the risk of slow response due to long-running transactions. 
> Other scenarios might want different policies.

Have you followed the recent work on WSGI (aka PEP 333) and Zope?
This should provide Twisted HTTP support.  For HTTP only, I'd perfer to
see that effort become robust.  (Perhaps it makes sense to integrate
twisted for FTP support or for other protocols.)

Jim

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