[Asterisk-Users] Re: Which AGI Development Software is fastest on Asterisk?

[Matt King]

Hello,

> I'm looking to develop some custom AGI that will be MySQL intensive.  It
> appears Asterisk supports many different development environments.  Which
> would be best suited for Asterisk and MySQL?

    It's generally fastest to use FastAGI (over TCP/IP), rather than 
regular AGI as this means the OS isn't starting a new process for each 
call (just like it's faster to use PHP or Servlets rather than 
old-school CGI for serving web pages).  This also means you can run your 
AGI application on a different server, if you want to, so as not to 
compromise Asterisk performance.

    If you know Java, you could try OrderlyCalls at 
http://orderlycalls.sourceforge.net (disclaimer - written by me!) which 
has full FastAGI and Manager support, reusable object pooling, and can 
be run inside Tomcat to build integrated web and telephony applications, 
though there are other packages out there, including Asterisk-Java ( 
http://asterisk-java.sourceforge.net - written by Stefan Reuter).

    Hope this helps,

       Matt King, Orderly Software
       http://www.orderlyq.com - probably the most advanced queue system 
in the world!