Hello world Jobpy!

As part of my diploma thesis I needed a multithreaded job producer/consumer architecture implementation with at-least-once semantics. To make testing easier I implemented the architecture and semantics part in a seperate framework and made sure it worked well. The code is pretty java-ish which I’m not all that happy about, but I thought that maybe it could be of use for someone anyway. So I created a little sourceforge.net project for jobpy.

You may ask yourself now why the hell to use jobpy when there is also parallelpython (aka pp). Well, there are some problems with pp - E.g. it’s pretty hard to share ressources like a socket or a database among the consumer threads because the jobs have to be serializable. But sometimes data structures cannot be serialized and you would have to code around this limitation. Jobpy is not designed to replace pp, it’s just a solution for the special case of multithreaded producer/consumer job processing with optionally shared ressources.