Arkady Perepelyuk [
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"Re: Clustering strategy for jBPM5"
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I'm trying to achieve exactly what this thread is all about - have a cluster of
several jBPM5 applications. They all areconnected to an enterprise service bus that can
easily round-robin requests coming from the clustered web application. The exact use case
is as follows:
1. jBPM5 Node 1 gets a request to create a process instance.There are several human tasks
that need to be created - so Node 1 communicates to a cluster of Task Servers to have that
done.
2. A user completes a human task which results in a Task server Node X communicating its
completion to jBPM5 Node 2.
The point that I'm trying to make is that unless the jBPM5 nodes share the same
knowledge session, Node 2 will not be able to pick up the task completion event and move
the process instance alone because the process instance would only be available to the
node that had created it. So, as Gary Tse had suggested in the opening message, I tried
session sharing by executing the following on each node:
h6. StatefulKnowledgeSession ksession =
JPAKnowledgeService.loadStatefulKnowledgeSession(1, kbase, config, env);
I reported the predictable failure due to optimistic locking not being the right strategy
to handle concurrent updates from multiple nodes. So this isn't an option to build a
clustered jBPM5 application. So I'm going to ask you again (I've asked you the
same question in a different thread dedictaed to clustering) - what is your approach to
building a clustered jBPM5 application for scalability and high availability? Every high
volume mission critical enterprise application requires this as a matter of very high
priority.
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