On Monday 31 October 2005 15:02, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > Use whatever protocol your > > backend supports. > > I don't have an existing backend. > In fact, I've got nothing at all yet for this project. So you could just write it as a module? > > > AJP looks usable, but I'm not sure if it's the right way. > > > > Apache's proxy framework is one option. DBD is another. > > The proxy framework would require my backend to export an HTTP interface? AJP is part of the proxy framework. As is HTTP to a backend. > Is DBD the Database-independent framework with driver? > How would that be useful for this? I've no idea, because you didn't say what "this" was. > > > CGI is no option for performance reasons. > > > > Have you benchmarked it? Most backends (eg anything using servlets) > > impose a far bigger overhead than CGI. > > No, but I'd like my application server to be persistent in order to > use smart caching. Fair enough. That's what DBD is particularly good for. Or something else based on a reslist pool of persistent connections. Perhaps I should just have answered "yes", as it's the only answer I could safely infer to such a vague and ill-formed question. But I thought a longer answer might have been helpful. -- Nick Kew --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx