Executing multiple (unrelated) Groovy scripts in a single/shared JVM

[Daniel Henrique Alves Lima]

        I think i've read something related to this before. I don't
remember if it was a project, an article, ...

        I have some unrelated Groovy scripts started by different
process at different times. If the script X is running and someone
starts the script Y, I want to reuse the same JVM instance. It will be
a kind of GroovyServ (http://kobo.github.com/groovyserv/), but I'm
looking for a pure-Java implementation because we have all kind of
OSes here: Windows XP/Vista/2003, some flavors of Linux, HP-UX, ...
        I'm aware of:

        1. All funny things that can happen when running those scripts
in a shared JVM :-);
        2. I won't be able to use groovy.sh or groovy.bat, because
they aren't prepared for this kind of "joining in" feature;
        3. I can develop a "smart" Grails (or Java) server to do
something like that.


        I really don't care about the slow(?) startup of scripting
languages (in general), because we are talking about long running
processes. I'm just worry about 100 or more concurrent scripts
starting 100 different JVMs on a production server :-)


        Is there any ready-to-use solution/tool, for this kind of problem?


        Thanks in advance.

                Best regards,

                        Daniel.

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[HamletDRC2]

I would define a service somewhere that executes Groovy scripts, and then have all of the processes that normally spawn these scripts use the service as well. Then that service could be one (or more) processes.

In my mind, I am thinking a synchronous message service would be good here. Do you have any other architectural components you are using? EJB? Spring? JMS?



----- Original Message -----

> I think i've read something related to this before. I don't
> remember if it was a project, an article, ...
>
>         I have some unrelated Groovy scripts started by different
> process at different times. If the script X is running and someone
> starts the script Y, I want to reuse the same JVM instance. It will
> be
> a kind of GroovyServ (http://kobo.github.com/groovyserv/), but I'm
> looking for a pure-Java implementation because we have all kind of
> OSes here: Windows XP/Vista/2003, some flavors of Linux, HP-UX, ...
>         I'm aware of:
>
>         1. All funny things that can happen when running those
>         scripts
> in a shared JVM :-);
>         2. I won't be able to use groovy.sh or groovy.bat, because
> they aren't prepared for this kind of "joining in" feature;
>         3. I can develop a "smart" Grails (or Java) server to do
> something like that.
>
>
>         I really don't care about the slow(?) startup of scripting
> languages (in general), because we are talking about long running
> processes. I'm just worry about 100 or more concurrent scripts
> starting 100 different JVMs on a production server :-)
>
>
>         Is there any ready-to-use solution/tool, for this kind of
>         problem?
>
>
>         Thanks in advance.
>
>                 Best regards,
>
>                         Daniel.
>
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[Daniel Henrique Alves Lima]

        Hi, Hamlet. I've inadvertently made a tricky question and I
apologize for that (it wasn't my intention).

        I'm trying to replace the usage of *nix shell scripts, Perl
scripts, Python scripts, ... by Groovy scripts. But any JVM 'language'
has a limitation for some cases: The JVM itself :-( If I start a lot
of JVM instances, the consumption of memory and CPU can be
prohibitive.
        For synchronous execution/processing, I believe the 'server'
can be written using Java/Groovy, but the client need to be written
using something else (like GroovyServ does) or I'll go back to the
original problem in the end.


        I need to think more about all this.

        Thanks.

        Best regards,

                Daniel.

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