Ressource management

>
>
>> to seaside I'm certainly a beginner, and from this it is not
>> clear to me what  rules there are for proper ressource
>> management. I had the problem with ODBC connections, which
>> were catched by WASessions (I think). Only a "Cache clean"
>> killed the ODBC instances.
>> Where would be a good place to clean - up i.e. database connections ?
>
>
> In one of my projects, we are using Seaside in VW for building a UI
> for a service that is running on a mainframe. The communication  
> between
> the UI and the service is based upon socket  connections which are
> managed
> out of a pool. We have a mechanism for obtaining socket connections
> from the pool and another one for releasing and cleaning them up. The
> socket
> connections are obtained lazily as needed and released as early as
> possible
> when no longer needed, to make sure that socket connections with the
> mainframe are held as briefly as possible.
>
> Although this is not database connections, these ideas may be reusable
> in your case.
>
> For robustness, we need to make sure that socket connections are
> properly
> released in all situations, so we have subclassed WASession and
> re-implemented
> #responseForRequest: with something like this :
>
> responseForRequest: aRequest
> [response := super responseForRequest: aRequest]
> ensure: [self releaseResourcesForRequest: aRequest
> response: response].
> ^response.
>
> We are not using #unregistered, since we are not holding any socket
> connection resource between HTTP requests.
>
> For even more robustness (when something weird occurs while executing
> the ensure block above), we also subclassed WAProcessMonitor and
> re-implemented
> #terminate with something like this:
>
> terminate
> | theProcess |
> (theProcess := process) ifNotNil:
> [theProcess terminate.
> self releaseResourcesForProcess: theProcess].
>
> The WAProcessMonitor object is instantiated in the #initialize method
> of our WASession subclass
>
> initialize
> super initialize.
> monitor := MyProcessMonitor new.
>
> HTH
> Michel.
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