[jboss-as7-dev] Feature requests from bof

[Galder Zamarreño]

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,
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Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Engineer
Infinispan, JBoss Cache