Re: Thinking out loud about a new RPG web framework

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <thunderaxiom@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Pluta skrev  den 06-06-2008 14:37:
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> Which is why I say create a single connection at the beginning of the 
> session and use it throughout.  You need connection pooling when you 
> have a stateless architecture that requires reconnection for every request.
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By having a connection for every user session you may run into a 
scalability problem since you require the user to log out to regain the 
resources allocated to that connection.

By properly using a pool for connections you can have long session 
timeouts and short idle times for connection timeouts allowing you to 
serve more users on the same hardware.

This naturally requires that the backend calls are stateless - all 
needed information is passed from the session object - which you must do 
anyway since this is for web users.