On 29/04/2011, at 11:31 AM, Jason Greene wrote:
Correct. Right now the only thing you can do is use infinispan and
jgroups directly.
That makes sense. :-)
I guess I was thinking more in terms of the intended features for GA. Or am I getting in
too early ?
Is there an outline somewhere of the intended features for clustering ?
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On Apr 28, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Andrig Miller <anmiller(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Darrin Mison" <dmison(a)redhat.com>
>> To: jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 7:24:58 PM
>> Subject: [jboss-as7-dev] DOCS: Researching details for standalone clustering
>> Hi, I'm chasing down details about the "standalone clustering" (as
>> included in Beta3) for documentation.
>>
>> I've noted the following:
>> 1 - There's a clustering-standalone.xml configuration file in
>> standalone/configuration that you can start the server with using
>> ./standalone.sh -server-config=clustering-standalone.xml
>>
>
> Actually, no. It turns out that the command-line argument handling in Beta 3,
requires this syntax:
>
> ./standalone.sh -server-config clustering-standalone.xml
>
> The "equal" sign does not work, but a space does. I believe Jason hinted
that he might fix this, so it may change in Beta 4.
>
>> 2 - This configuration differs from the standard config in that:
>> - the org.jboss.as.clustering extension is enabled
>> - some additional items are configured in the
>> urn:jboss:domain:osgi:1.0 subsystem
>> - 2 new subsystems configured (jgroups and infinispan)
>> - 6 new socket bindings added to the standard-sockets group for
>> jgroups
>>
>> So exactly what feature set does this give you out of the box for
>> clustering?
>
> So far, nothing that I can tell. I just had a e-mail conversation with Remy on what
I thought might be an issue with HTTP session replication, but he says its not in there
yet.
>
> Also, while there is a configuration for Hibernate 2LC, that also is not completely
implemented.
>
> My guess is that none of what's configured is actually complete.
>
>>
>> I'm guessing session replication between standalone instances with
>> JGroups for intra-node communication and Infinispan for storage?
>>
>> Anything else?
>>
>> Other questions:
>>
>> How does each instance determine which other instances it should be
>> clustered with?
>>
>> Does this work with multiple instances on one machine (multi-homed or
>> on different ports)?
>>
>> Can multiple standalone instances using "cluster" configuration live
>> on the same network but not all be one cluster? Like 10 instances as 2
>> clusters of 5 for example?
>>
>> Aside from centralized management, what are the other key features
>> from domain mode that you won't get from standalone clustering ?
>>
>> Are there any known changes that are going to be made to this feature
>> set for GA ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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