[mod_python] Persistent web-service

Hi!

I am not sure wheather I should use the word service or server (or 
something else) in the following, so I will stick to "service".

I have some C code which I need to call from mod_python in a 
web-service implementation. I need a persistent web-service, meaning 
either that my service is started up when Apache starts, or at the first 
call made for my service. What I need is to have some C-structs 
initialized and which survive calls to my service, until Apache shuts 
down. If it wasn't for this need of persistency I could use some simpler 
mechanisms like CGI.

To put it another way, I need a CORBA-like server, only based on Apache. 
In a CORBA implementation, the server keeps running and serves requests 
from clients as they arrive, without losing state between calls.

Any suggestions on how to go about this task using Apache and mod_python?

Thanks for helping,
Catalin



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