Re: integrating guile in an apache module

[Per Bothner]

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> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:44:28PM +0300, George Moschovitis wrote:
>
> > Hello everybody!
> >
> > I am trying to code an apache2.0 module that uses guile for scripting
> > dynamic html pages.
>
> Well, with Apache2 you might encounter other, more severe, problems as
> well. Apache2 might run in multithreaded manner and hence there's a 
> high chance for several modules to execute in parallel. AFAIK guile
> is'nt meant to be run in parallel (only one thread can use guile).

You might consider using Kawa for scripting dynamic html web pages in
Scheme.  Kawa supports compiling a Scheme program to a "servlet" which
can run quite efficiently in a "servlet engine" such as Tomcat.  And
of course servlets are designed to be run using multiple threads.

This article show how simple it can be:
http://www.gnu.org/software/qexo/simple-xquery-webapp.html
The article uses the XQuery language, but using Scheme should
also work in the same way (though I haven't tried writing a
Scheme version of the example).  (To avoid mis-understandings:
Kawa is now a multi-language framework, providing implementations
of Scheme, Emacs Lisp, XQuery, and other languages.)

You might also consider BRL: http://brl.sourceforge.net/
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