Have you seen the RAFT implementation in jgroups [1]? It maybe helpful to implement the
leader election.
[1]
http://belaban.github.io/jgroups-raft/manual/index.html
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http://belaban.github.io/jgroups-raft/manual/index.html>
On 11 Apr 2016, at 18:57, Brian Stansberry
<brian.stansberry(a)redhat.com> wrote:
1) A longstanding request to have automatic failover of the master HC to
a backup. There are different ways to do this, but group communication
based leader election is a possible solution. My preference, really.