[Zope] Product for Out-of-Process jobs

[Florian Reiser]

Hello Dieter,

thanks for your tip with LocalProc.

But I am working on windoze and don't have a shell where I set a &
behind the command and send it into the background.
My task is simply the following:

- User starts report generation and gets a screen saying: "Computing, please
wait"
- Every ten seconds the browser refreshes. If zope is finished computing the
report,
then it delivers the resulting pdf-file, else it shows the screen again.
- The report code is stored in the ZODB completely.

How do I do this without threads?
I have set up ZEO and don't want to cope with that beast once again.
But I will do if its necessary.


With kind regards
Florian Reiser

-----Original Message-----
From: Dieter Maurer [mailto:dieter at handshake.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:59 PM
To: florian.reiser at ra-bc.de
Cc: zope at zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] Product for Out-of-Process jobs


Florian Reiser wrote at 2004-6-2 14:46 +0200:
>I need to generate some huge PDF-report out of process.
>So the user sees some waiting screen, while the report is generated.
>When generation is finished the report is delivered.
>First I did it with Threads. It was a pain, but the waiting screen worked.
>Now I do it with ZEO, but the waiting screen doesn't work any more.
>
>I'm now finally thinking about a generic product allowing me to do a task
>out-of-process.

Maybe, there is already such a products (since years).
Try to find "LocalProc" and look into it...

-- 
Dieter