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OK, I have an open source program that's been out for a few years. It is moderately used but hardly known. The project name is "msession." It is designed to be a daemon for session management for a web farm of PHP servers. There is an extension in PHP for it. (I've contemplated just canceling the project for a while) I am giving it one more try and reworking it and renaming it "MCache," and have a bigger strategy. There are a few pieces to the puzzle. MCache, the high speed daemon, it is currently being tested and looks good. I have XMLDBX, a simple XML data specification (XMLDBX -- XML DataBase eXchange), used to transfer semi-structured data between applications. I have a PHP serializer that encodes and decodes in XMLDBX( While generates about 30% large data files, reports have been that it is faster than PHP's on serializer). I am working on a set of PostgreSQL and SQLite functions that will allow you to query against data stored in the database as a varchar formatted in XMLDBX. If anyone is interested in helping out, here's what is needed: XMLDBX - Java, encode and decode java session data into and out of XMLDBX formatted XML. MCache - Java, read and write session data from mcache in Java. If you want to work with MySQL, a few functions that will extract specific data elements from an XMLDBX formatted XML in a database. You can use the SQLite/PostgreSQL code as a template. The end-result is a stand-alone session management system that allows java and PHP to use each-other's session data, allows the back-end storage system to use the session data, and all this with an optional caching mechanism that reduces database access. The licence will be GPL. Anyone interested?
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