[jboss-dev] AS Beta3 - Release Notes

[Brian Stansberry]

Here's a wiki page:

http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossAS5ClusteringChanges

If you want bullets instead for the biggest ones:

* Clustering configurations have been organized in the deploy dir in a 
new "cluster" subfolder. (JBAS-4709)
* Separate cache used for Clustered SSO. (JBAS-4676)
* Use of JGroups 2.6.1.GA and JBoss Cache 2.1.0.CR2.
* Use of the JGroups Multiplexer to permit sharing of channels between 
services. AS 5 provides a channel factory service, deployed in the 
{{{deploy/jgroups-channelfactory.sar}}}; standard AS services obtain 
their JGroups channel from this factory.  Factory parses the 
{{{META-INF/multiplexer-stacks.xml}}} file, which includes various 
standard JGroups configurations identified by name (e.g "udp" or "tcp"). 
Services needing a channel access the channel factory and ask for a 
channel with a particular name. If multiple services (e.g. web session 
replication and EJB3 SFSB replication) ask for a channel with the same 
name, they will transparently share the same underlying JGroups channel. 
See 
http://www.jgroups.org/javagroupsnew/docs/manual/html/user-advanced.html#d0e2203 
for more on the JGroups multiplexer.

Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
> If you have a bullet list with important changes for your 
> component/project that you want to see in the AS5 Beta3 release notes, 
> please send them to me, asap.
> 
> Those should be backed by JIRA tasks, or a link to a wiki page 
> describing the changes.
> 
> Thanks
> /Dimitris
> 
> PS
> If for some reason, you are still doing AS Beta3 work, let me know.
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Brian Stansberry
Lead, AS Clustering
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
brian.stansberry at redhat.com