-> Right now I'm considering having it dump a task into a database and
-> having a seperate application polling the database for new rows and
-> then processing. What I was trying to avoid was managing two seperate
-> processes.

I'm with ya, but this is what I ended up with.  There's an older thread
with some relevance here:

http://mail.mems-exchange.org/pipermail/quixote-users/2003-July/thread.html#1773

Let me know if you need any more info on Linda tuple spaces ;).

cheers,
--titus

p.s. Threads are tricky.