On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 09:57 +0200, Bela Ban wrote:
Paul Ferraro wrote:
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TBH, I'm not a 100% sure what the code above does... is it adding
a
lifecycle listener dynamically if mod_cluster is started after JBossWeb
? Actually, I guess this will always be the case as you have a
dependency from mod-cluster to JBossWeb.
In summary, if the jbossweb server exists that means the WebServer
service was already started. If this is the case, then dynamically add
the mod_cluster lifecycle listener, and trigger the init and start
events manually (since those events were missed).
> This requires a small modification to the
> MicrocontainerIntegrationLifecycleListener, which will need to delegate
> equals(Object) to its non-null delegate listener if the argument is a
> LifecycleListener, but not an instanceof MCILL.
>
> So, this essentially does what you described. There are couple other
> advantages:
> 1. We no longer need to define a <Listener/> in server.xml (closes
> MODCLUSTER-20 !!!).
Because you're adding the listener dynamically, a la MODCLUSTER-20, right ?
Right.
Wow, that would be great !
> 2. We no longer rely on the finicky
> MicrocontainerIntegrationLifecycleListener, which requires (so to avoid
> a call to JBossWebMicrocontainerBeanLocator.getInstalledBean(...) on
> every lifecycle event) that the delegate listener is deployed prior to
> the start() of the WebServer service.
OK
> 3. There is no longer any manual step to enable mod_cluster (e.g.
> uncommenting <depends>ModClusterListener</depends>) - the existence of
> mod_cluster.sar is enough.
Cool ! So the mod-cluster SAR has a dependency on WebServer, and when
you dynamically deploy mod-cluster.sar, JBossWeb will already be
running, good !
Yup.
> 4. It is still compatible with the mod_cluster configuration
bundled
> with AS 6.0.0.M1-M3.
OK
> 5. mod_cluster is now hot-deployable, independently of jbossweb. The
> addition of a corresponding stop() that removes the lifecycle listener
> will allow mod_cluster to be hot-undeployable.
Great !
Yes - now mod_cluster can finally behave like a normal jboss service...
> Thoughts?
Excellent ! I like this a lot, because it simplifies things a lot and
reduces the amount of configuration to be done.
So when this is done, what will the configuration steps be (on the JBoss
AS side) ?
1. Add a jvmRoute to server.xml [optional, as jvmRoute is generated
if absent]
The default JvmRouteFactory allows system property override as well, via
-Djboss.mod_cluster.jvmRoute
2. mod-cluster.sar:
1. Set the proxy list (jboss.mod_cluster.proxyList) [optional
if IP multicasting works, as advertise is enabled by default]
Advertise is not enabled by default - in order to minimize jboss's
default port footprint. Advertise can be enabled via a system property.
So, in summary, the servers just need to be started with either:
-Djboss.mod_cluster.advertise=true
or
-Djboss.mod_cluster.proxyList=....
2. Set the domain [optional if we use a system prop, or the
default domain]
3. Use HAModClusterService instead of ModClusterService: for
the mod-cluster.sar located in 'all', can we make this the
default ?
I alluded to this earlier when I mentioned splitting the
ModClusterListener bean into a separate conf file and creating 2
versions of it. One using HAModClusterService for use in the all
profile, the other using ModClusterService for use in the default
profile.