[Lazarus] GUI development for web UI

Marcos Douglas md at delfire.net
Fri Dec 3 14:58:52 CET 2010


On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Lee Jenkins <lee at datatrakpos.com> wrote:
> On 12/1/2010 12:44 PM, Marcos Douglas wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Joost van der Sluis<joost at cnoc.nl>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 17:05 +0100, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 15:51 +0100, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Also check this:
>>>>> http://www.fastcgi.com/drupal/node/6?q=node/22#S4.1
>>>>>
>>>>> The FastCGI process should return how many connection and requests it
>>>>> can handle. I'm not sure anymore if FastCGI of fpc can handle muliple
>>>>> requests at a time. (It could, but some parts ahve been changed)
>>>>
>>>> It never could.
>>>> There is 1 connection, and all requests go through this connection.
>>>
>>> Yes, but this was about requests. One connection can be used for
>>> multiple requests. Each package contain an identifier for which request
>>> it is, so multiple request can be handled.
>>
>> I've made ISAPI apps a long time ago... with Delphi.
>> One connection can be used for multiples requests, in ISAPI, but all
>> access to RDBMS were protected (TCriticalSection).
>> How would be with FastCGI and FPC?
>>
>
> In my experience, connection pooling is most common.  Below is a pooling
> class I copied from the pooling class in tiOPF, but using TObject instead of
> the TtiObject base class with some extra features that I needed without a
> dependency on tiOPF.
>
> http://pastebin.com/xQ3nNpHj
>
> Basically I do this:
>
> var
>  lDM: TDataModule;
> begin
>
>  lDM := gGlobalPool.Lock;
>  try
>    // Get your code on
>  finally;
>    gGlobalPool.UnLock(lDM);
>  end;
>
> end;
>
> The pool can contain any TObject so I frequently use it to pool other
> resources than database connections.  The tiOPOF implementation is pretty
> sweet (why I copied it) and so the TObject version also uses a watch thread
> to destroy older, unused object to save memory, etc to maintain the number
> of connections, etc.

That is exactly I used, in my ISAPI apps, but without threads and
pool, just TCriticalSection (the apps were used local net).

Marcos Douglas




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