[Zope-dev] Idea: Awaking Zope to Life

[Vincenzo Di Somma]

On Sunday 13 October 2002 17:44, Ulrich Eck wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I just had an Idea and want to hear your comments on the following:
>
> Zope is a Request-Based System. It has no internal scheduling functions
> except one installs Xron.
>
> I have written a MicroThread Scheduler using python2.2 generators
> that supply cooperative Multithreading.
>
> Now the point:
>
> I want to integrate this Scheduler as one Thread (like Xron)
> to Zope as "Service" where clients could register a callback
> with parameters which are called regularly with a certain priority.
>
> Zope's Persistent Object Database would morph to an completely
> persistent Program that handles requests too.
>
> One could use it to implement better Workflow capabilities,
> or an Event Sytem (a client would register a Thread that
> checks for incoming messages and handles them). Many more things
> could be done ..

I really need something like that for OpenFlow.

> What are the pitfalls i can run into, when trying to implement this ??
> I could think of concurrency issues, problem with threads, context,
> security .. any concrete hints ??

No, but we can explore that together.

> What do you think about that ??
Really interesting, I`m interested in helping you for that.

Bye,
	Vincenzo.