CGI tends to get a bad rap (often rightly so) because it's based on the concept of one request per process lifetime. Creating a new process for each request is part of what makes CGI apps so easy to create, you don't have to worry about multi-threading issues or worry about the state of the process, it's always new. Think of CGI as being RPG calls where you seton LR after each call, it's slower, but it's always clean. :) There is also Fast-CGI, which is roughtly akin to calling return w/out LR in RPG :) Apache support FastCGI in general, but I don't know about the i5/OS version. More "modern" app servers support multiple requests as threads in a single process (or group of processes, often called a web-garden) but apps that aren't multi-thread capable can cause problems in these situations.
-Walden
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