Re: CT: Stumped was RE: [Zope] Asynchronous dtml?

Here is another example use for something like this. The Plumtree Portal Server, to build the content of a mypage, will use multiple threads to collect the content for the table cells of the mypage from what they term gadget servers. It is important to collect this content in parallel otherwise the time to build can be really bad especially if multiple sources time out which can occur more often than one would expect. If one were to build mypages for CMF for example and rely on external content provision (say stock quotes, etc) for any of the sources, one would need something like this. (I have used Zope as a gadget server with Plumtree.) FYI, Albert Boulanger vPatch Technologies