Posted by ashore on 01/20/08 18:57

Folks, am working on a real-time-ish application - say, a complex form
of chat - in which a few different processes will generate data and
one or more http clients will need to be notified. (Something like
this was used at http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-broth-ajax-shared-mosaic
-- but that appears to be very specific to their problem area and I'm
interested in something more generic.

"Slow load" (see http://www.obviously.com/tech_tips/slow_load_technique)
seems a good mechanism to notify the client, but the simple form of
that needs build up to accommodate events of several types from a
number of sources.

It looks to me that application-level script-to-script notification is
needed - and exists (see http://www.leosingleton.com/projects/code/phpapp/)
plus a queue mechanism, which also exists (see http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/file/5025.html)

I've googled for it and failed to find a packaging of these elements.
I'm interested in hearing about any that might exist, before I try to
roll my own. Thanks, all.

AS

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