ooh. that is an endevaour that I am not sure if I am capable of undertaking. I will have to later on but not right now due to my time constraints.
I was hoping for a lively discussion to ensue and somehow magically the function would show up in phoenix or something couple of days later. ;-) But I see that is not how it works. But as I come across a working solution, I will continue to contribute to mailing list and solicit feedback within the framwork context. --- Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 02:18, sadaf zargeen wrote: > > This is a message orient application. To properly > > fail-over I would have one instance that is > servicing > > requests. Upon failure, the stand-by server(s) > would > > detect failure, negotiate its status to come up as > the > > primary server amongst possibly other servers and > > start servicing request by picking up where the > other > > applicaiton left off. Naturaly this carries many > > implications some of which are: > > - how to negotiate being primary server? rating > > system? > > - how to know where to "pick up"? does this mean > > sharing application state? does this mean sharing > > user session state? > > - if sharing state, using central state/session > > repository(possibly slow, single point of failure) > or > > publishing state/session to all other servers > > periodically. > > - what to use as the communication protocol > amongst > > servers? socket, jmx(openJMX implementation eg). > > This is all interesting questions and I would say > that the best way to do this > is to use an application that accesses JMX to do it. > We have discussed it > before on one of the mailing lists here but I can't > seem to find it atm. > > Anyways there is not currently anything in avalon to > do this. If you create > something and want to contribute it then I am more > then interested in hearing > about it and including it if you want ;) > > -- > Cheers, > > Peter Donald > Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is > absurd. > -- Voltaire > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
