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So my question is if this project is still active? It seems orbited.org is down and I am finding old tutorials or documentation for the orbited project. I want to use this project to run some backend scripts that can take a while to run. That is they are pooling weblogic servers to start, stop, restart.

Should I stick with orbited or is there a better way to do this with django?

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  • What'd you end up doing? Look at the suggestions I made below at all? I'm curious as to what the best way to do this in Python is, as web results do seem to be equivocal. – agf Jul 19 '11 at 04:57
  • yea thanks for the info. I am still kind of researching. I liked orbited because it was seperate server / js. But havnt seen much else in that realm yet. Twisted looks like id have to make my own server and tornado not sure yet – Colin Wood Jul 19 '11 at 13:18
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    This might solve my problem. http://iraniweb.com/blog/?p=56 – Colin Wood Jul 21 '11 at 20:59

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The top Google results for Orbited are all Summer '09, which seems to be when the last release was made. The last entry on pypi is 0.7.10, in June '09. A Wayback Machine shows the site last crawled in '09 as well.

So yes, it seems the project is dead.

This question: The latest recommendation for Comet in Python? and several pages turned up by a Google search seem to suggest Tornado http://www.tornadoweb.org/ or Twisted http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ as the alternative.

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I think both are being maintained by separate people at this point, but they both seem to be active. Here are the links to where they are being maintained: Orbited, Orbited2

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It appears that the project is, indeed, dead:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/orbited-users/MhEIjOxwEKM/I_fMdLGGAJYJ

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