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What is Pi3 and Pi3Web?

April 26, 2017pi3web

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What is Pi3 and Pi3Web?

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Pi3 is a component based architecture framework for cross platform development of internet servers. Pi3Web is full featured, multithreaded HTTP server based on the Pi3 component architecture. What is the background of this work? This software was initially written by John Roy in the time period April 1996 to August 1997 as a hobby project to investigate various aspects of Internet server software development: • Potential for reuse via componentalization • Extension of existing server ‘plug-in’ models to make core server operation also a plugin (e.g. thread model, IO transport, etc.) • Use of multithreading to increase some aspects of performance • Cross platform development issues. Pi3Web was driven by the desire to create an open source based, high performance, multithreaded web server with true cross platform potential. This software was released as 0.9b1 in August 1997 after the functionality was pretty much complete and the tests scripts heavily hit the server without resource prob