Proposal attached - Re: Asynchronous Transport in Apache Axis, JMS and beyond

[David Chappell <ch...@sonicsoftware.com>]

Attached is an early draft of the proposal we have been working on. 
Think of it as something that 
highlights the issues and the beginnings of an architecture for
discussion purposes.  We are looking forward to feedback from the group.
Dave


James M Snell wrote:
> 
> Yeah yeah, I know, spin locks suck.  I've been caught taking the quick
> route for the prototype.  Will fix it ;-)
> 
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> "Steve Loughran" <st...@iseran.com> wrote on 09/05/2002 03:17:23 PM:
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Chappell" <ch...@sonicsoftware.com>
> > To: <ax...@xml.apache.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 3:05 PM
> > Subject: Re: Asynchronous Transport in Apache Axis, JMS and beyond
> 
> >
> > > I have a question/concern about this in your Call object -
> > >
> > >     public Object waitForReturnValue(long timeout)
> > >       throws Throwable {
> > >         long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
> > >         while ((System.currentTimeMillis() - start) < timeout &&
> > >                getAsyncStatus() == ASYNC_RUNNING) {}
> > >         if (this.returnedFault != null) throw this.returnedFault;
> > >         return this.returnValue;
> > >     }
> > >
> > > If there are a lot of these things pending, wouldn't that tight loop
> > > chew up some significant CPU?  It might be better to have another
> thread
> > > that does a wait(timeout).  Then SimpleAsyncCall.invoke() could
> notify()
> > > it.  Perhaps the Listener could be the Runnable since that's a common
> > > class between them.  Its twice as many threads, but in the long run it
> > > might be worth it.  This is billed as "Simple", so I know I am being
> > > nit-picky.  But this is all good stuff to figure out.
> > >
> 
> > It kills laptops too, and performance if the local system is actually
> > servicing the response. At the very least, sleep for a bit.
> 
> > I'm -1 on spinlocks except for the special case of device drivers on an
> MP
> > system that cannot yield to the OS.

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Re: Proposal attached - Re: Asynchronous Transport in Apache Axis, JMS and beyond

[Steve Loughran <st...@iseran.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Chappell" <ch...@sonicsoftware.com>
To: <ax...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:04 AM
Subject: Proposal attached - Re: Asynchronous Transport in Apache Axis, JMS
and beyond


> Attached is an early draft of the proposal we have been working on.
> Think of it as something that
> highlights the issues and the beginnings of an architecture for
> discussion purposes.  We are looking forward to feedback from the group.
> Dave
>

maybe its my system but every time I try and open that file in word, it just
disappears -no error message, nothing. How about posting a PDF copy?