Re: [wildfly-dev] EJB over HTTP

On May 4, 2016, at 8:11 AM, David M. Lloyd <david.lloyd(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: On 05/04/2016 12:50 AM, Stuart Douglas wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have started looking into support for service invocation over HTTP. > Unlike our existing HTTP upgrade support this will map EJB > requests/responses directly to HTTP requests and responses, which should > allow it to be used behind existing load balancers. > > I have started an initial description of the protocol at: > https://github.com/stuartwdouglas/wildfly-http-client/blob/master/docs/wi... > > The intention is to follow HTTP semantics as closely as possible. > Clustering will be provided in a similar manner to web clustering (i.e. > it will require a load balancer, and work in a similar manner to web > clustering). > > There is still plenty work that needs to be done (especially around > security), so if anyone has any feedback let me know. One thing I was thinking was that we could possibly support multiple marshalling strategies in the future by way of content-type, since that header has a useful negotiation strategy already defined. It could even be done using the defined types e.g. application/x-ejb-invocation;version=2;m=protobuf or whatever. Something to think about for the future…