I am working on a project I would love to use AOLserver with. We are going to have a variety of Linux and Solaris machines each running one or more copies of AOLserver doing various tasks, some web related, some wireless related, and some just doing random TCP based tasks.
Some of these machines will be in the same rack at an ISP, while others will be in different racks, on different continents. I wonder what tools you folks might have, that could be distributed (to people as well as between processors) that help multiple AOLserver processes communicate and cooperate. What would be great are tools that allow me to broadcast messages, or that create a reliable messaging layer between multiple AOLserver processes. Perhaps even better would be any tools that might help one reliably share/sync any specific tcl object between multiple AOLserver processes. If I build this myself, I am considering utilizing the Spread Toolkit, http://www.spread.org/ (which carries an older BSD-like license.) >Spread is a toolkit that provides a high performance messaging service >that is resilient to faults across external or internal networks. Spread >functions as a unified message bus for distributed applications, and >provides highly tuned application-level multicast and group communication >support. Spread services range from reliable message passing to fully >ordered messages with delivery guarantees, even in case of computer >failures and network partitions. Does anyone have any experience with this toolkit? If so, what is your experience, is it reliable? Is it high performance? Thanks, Jerry Asher ======================================================== Jerry Asher [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1678 Shattuck Avenue Suite 161 Tel: (510) 549-2980 Berkeley, CA 94709 Fax: (877) 311-8688
