I subject has arisen in JBAS-3151 "Convert HA-JNDI stubs to Remoting" that Brian has suggested deserves some discussion.  I've started a forum thread (http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4266436#4266436), but here's the teaser:


"ron" wrote:

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Is there anything wrong with HARMIClient and HARMIServer, other than the fact that they depend on RMI?
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"brian" wrote:

Not particularly, no. I think the main issues are 1) we want to unify as much as possible on a single remote invocation mechanism 2) get rid of myriad sockets opened by different services. I suppose the latter goes beyond the description of this JIRA as it involve converting HANamingService to use a Remoting connector instead of directly listening on port 1101.


"ron" wrote:

It looks like there are two kinds of Naming listeners:

1. the "bootstrap" listeners in org.jnp.server.Main and org.jboss.ha.jndi.HANamingService, and

2. the actual service listeners: org.jnp.server.NamingServer and org.jboss.ha.framework.server.HARMIServerImpl

So, we'd like to replace them all with handlers on a single Remoting connector (or, actually, the Remoting 3 version of of handlers and connectors).


"brian" wrote:

The bootstrap listener part probably bears discussion on the jboss-dev list since it much more directly impacts stuff like end-user configuration (i.e. jndi.properties or other ways of setting the properties passed to new InitialContext()). The service listeners are more straightforward.


Discuss?

-Ron