[jboss-as7-dev] Feature requests from bof

[Scott Stark]

Right, I would expect there is a discovery protocol implementation 
provided by the as7 integration layer because it probably also has a 
clustering subsystem dsl  in the domain as well.

On 5/10/11 12:18 AM, Galder Zamarreño wrote:
> On May 9, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Scott Stark wrote:
>
>> A couple of feature requests from the as7 bof likely require a notion of
>> the domain topology to be accessible via the management api. Two
>> requests that stick out are:
>>
>> 1. The knowledge of the "cluster" members in a non-autodiscovery
>> environment (such as most cloud providers). The request was a little
>> more specific in that there was a desire to have a cluster aware service
>> such as infinispan to magically have its membership configuration
>> handled by the domain when one would typically have to setup a gossip
>> server, S3_PING or some other non-UDP discovery service. As we discussed
>> in the bof, there really is no "cluster" notion, but we should expect
>> that a one or more server-groups would be setup to represent the
>> services one wants to be clustered, and so, requesting the members of a
>> server-group from the domain api could be used to build a discovery service.
> This would require JGroups to be plugged with an external discovery mechanism instead of JGroups doing it via PING/S3_PING/GossipRouter. Maybe just a new discovery protocol to get the info from AS7 domain API would be enough.
>
> CC'ing Bela/Vladimir which I'm not sure are reading this list.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Galder Zamarreño
> Sr. Software Engineer
> Infinispan, JBoss Cache
>