[jboss-as7-dev] Distributed cache in AS7

[Darran Lofthouse]

For management after the various considerations so far i don't see a 
need for a distributed cache anyway as we have already explored a couple 
of additional options: -

  - Slave DC delegating to Master DC.
  - Signed token containing required data.

For AS7 I see the problem that they need to solve is that every request 
from a single client could potentially be passed to any node in a 
cluster so having access to the 'authenticated state' of the users on 
each node has some merit.

However for management clients connecting to different nodes isn't 
something we expect to be usual so any distributed cache would be on the 
off-chance that the administrator may connect to any one of the many 
nodes connected to the DC.

(We still have the issue of distributed cache invalidation or signed 
token revocation but that is a slightly different issue for us)

Regards,
Darran Lofthouse.


On 03/17/2011 06:47 PM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
> Paul will be bringing in clustering services a la AS 6 (Paul: when?).
>
> But if this cache is to be used for management authentication, any
> JGroups based solution is not an option. The management architecture is
> not peer-to-peer.
>
> On 3/17/11 1:23 PM, Marcus Moyses wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I need to implement an authentication cache for AS7 and one of the
>> requirements we need is that it should be replicated in all nodes.
>> Do we have this use case implemented somewhere already? I was thinking
>> about using Infinispan but I don't see this dependency (or JGroups for
>> that matter) currently in AS7 so I was wondering if we are using
>> something else that I'm not familiar with.
>> I don't want to bring new dependencies if they are not necessary ;)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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