Re: [Exist-development] new functionality: Execution Pipeline

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

2010/1/26 Thomas White <tho...@gm...>:
> I do believe, having asynchronous mechanism for fetching data in eXist will
> give us foundation for many interesting new ideas.
> I will need this functionality in about two months time and I really hope
> somebody from the dev team will be interested in implementing the execution
> pipeline.

I think we will be very pushed for time to meet that deadline. The
roadmap for the next two versions is already laid out - although it is
subject to change.

Do you have any resources you could allocate to this effort?


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> 2010/1/26 Adam Retter <ad...@ex...>
>>
>> 2010/1/25 Thomas White <tho...@gm...>:
>> > Adam,
>> >
>> > From my point of view, there are some important differences. Scheduling
>> > functions can be used to execute a function asynchronously if the
>> > execution
>> > time is set say 1 sec after the current time but this is where the
>> > similarity ends.
>> >
>> > 1. So far all eXist functions are executed asynchronously (except
>> > scheduled
>> > jobs and triggers). If I need to get data from say 25 or 250 remote
>> > sources
>> > at the moment we will need to do it one data chunk at a time, one after
>> > another. What about if we need to fetch 5000 RSS feeds?
>> > We do need asynchronous commands.
>>
>> Ah okay, I think I understand now. Yes, it seems like an interesting
>> feature to add to eXist.
>>
>> I guess we could add this onto the end of the roadmap if the other
>> developers agree, however there is some work involved in this and as I
>> am sure we are pretty busy.
>>
>> So how soon do you need this functionality?
>>
>> --
>> Adam Retter
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