[infinispan-dev] Hot Rod - pt2

[Bela Ban]

This ID is used solely for checking whether a client has the current 
view, isn't it ? If so, then a simple ID is sufficient

Galder Zamarreno wrote:
> On 12/17/2009 02:45 PM, Bela Ban wrote:
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>> Correct, but that ID by itself is NOT unique over space&  time. I don't
>> know though whether you ned this uniqueness...
>>     
>
> Hmmmm, I don't think the consequences of it not being unique are huge.
>
> Let's say a client has vClient=10 that consists of nodeA and nodeB and 
> then the server generates a vServer=10 with nodeA, nodeC and nodeD. The 
> server won't send back the topology but the client will be working 
> sub-optimally until a new view is generated since it will be sending 
> everything to the sole remaining node in his view, nodeA. If the new 
> view had included only nodeE and nodeF (assumming nodeA and nodeB have 
> been brought down), the client would need to reconnect to a known server 
> somehow and would start at -1, so it'd get a new topology in first response.
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Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
JBoss