Re: [Cppcms-users] Plugins and templates

[Artyom <art...@ya...>]

> 
> It currently returns an booster::intrusive_ptr to an instance of  the
> plugin's application.
> What does it make for a difference at all if an  application is used
> asynchronous?


Big!!!

- Asynchronous application dies when it does not have handles. i.e. you
  need to keep it alive. Or keep a live pointer on it.

  Generally speaking applications pool does not keep a pointer on it. And
  when last reference dies it removes it from them pool.

  So in your case it probably becomes immediately removed from the pool
  as its pointer unreferenced.

- Asynchronous application executed in main thread and not in thread pool
- Asynchronous application does not load session by default.
- Asynchronous application does not do gzip compression
- Only one asynchronous application exits and handle requests while
  synchronous can have multiple instances and they are cached in pool.

And much more...

> 
> To create a custom factory, I just  have to subclass
> cppcms::applications_pool::factory and override the  operator()
> statement, haven't I?
>


Yep ;-)

Artyom

P.S.: Still take a look on loading shared libraries option. it is interesting.