[Zope3-dev] Re: Twisted Publisher and Zope 2
Jim Fulton
jim at zope.com
Mon Dec 12 09:21:45 EST 2005
Tres Seaver wrote:
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> Sidnei da Silva wrote:
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>>On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 07:18:05AM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>| We should proceed by getting Z2 and Z3 to use a common
>>| publisher, presumingly based on the Z3 publisher. This common
>>| publisher should:
>>|
>>| - Be well documented and tested.
>>|
>>| - Use WSGI for HTTP
>>|
>>| - Be backward compatible with Both Z2 and Z3
>>|
>>| - Should be highly customizable through components. This will
>>| hopefully allow z2-stype and z3-style publication to coexist in
>>| a single app server.
>>|
>>| Again, I expect that the Z3 publisher will be the best starting point.
>>|
>>| Note that the Z3 publication framework splits functionality
>>| currently provided by the Z2 publisher into a publisher and a
>>| publication object. An initial step might be top come up with
>>| a Z2 publication object that works with the Z3 publisher.
>>
>>You haven't said anything about the server. I assume this Z3/Z2
>>publication object hybrid would run with with the Z3 server instead of
>>the Z2 ZServer.
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> If WSGI lives up to its promise, then the WSGI-compliant Z2-Z3 hybrid
> would be publishable as a "WSGI application" from any WSGI server,
> including perhaps mod_python-based servers.
Yup.
> Ob. note: the performance characteristics of such servers (including
> twisted) are not well understood in the context of Zope, until some
> brave soul actually rolls out a high-volume production site and reports
> success or failure.
Good point! It would be good to investigate this issue further.
Jim
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