Re: [Proxool-developer] suggestion

[Bill H. <bi...@lo...>]

Hello,

You're not the first person to ask for this. It's not as simple as it
sounds, although it is possible. Our design decision was based on early JVMs
that weren't very good at coping when things got busy. We reckoned that if
the site was so busy that we'd used up all the connections to our powerful
database then we really needed it to degrade nicely. Queueing up requests
just increased the load on the server and made the customers wait for an
unresponsive page. Much better to give a snappy answer to the customer to
say that we were unusually busy and to try again later.

Of course, not all situations are the same and JVM are a lot more mature
now. I can certainly see that it would make sense to build a queue.
Volunteers?

I don't do much Java these days and this project has slipped - it's not
getting the attention it deserves. I would like to releases 0.9.0 after it's
somewhat excessive release candidate period but can't promise when that will
be. I more than happy to give advice to anyone wishing to get their toes wet
in this project.

Good luck,
-
Bill