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Re: Perl - web interfaceby sundialsvc4 (Abbot) |
on Nov 11, 2010 at 19:23 UTC ( [id://870920]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
A “web application” is, for all intents and purposes, a new application, and should be approached in that manner. The exact approach will wholly depend on what sort of application it is. You might be able to build a web application that invokes the existing application – or, more likely, that sends a request from the web-server to some other “application server” to do so. It is very reasonable to presume that suitable frameworks already exist within Perl/CPAN to do most of these steps. There are CGI handlers, batch processing schedulers and parallel fork-managers, robust and reliable queues, and so on. The most serious issue that you are likely to run into, is the bugaboo of all web applications: maintaining state. Hence the thought that, perhaps, the process which actually runs your application might not be the web-server proper.
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