On Thursday 13 May 2004 20:36, Gonzalo Diethelm wrote: > My question is this: is the plan to have a clustering API at the > Avalon/Merlin/wherever level, so that I as a developer will be able to > program to this API, and when deployment time comes, the API will use > whatever proprietary, non-standard clustering implementation underlying in > the app server? I believe that for this to be possible, it is necessary to > define a common clustering API/service/definition, and I am trying to > understand whether anybody at Avalon is giving this some thought (I thought > Merlin was doing something in this area, but I may be totally wrong), or if > anybody knows of any other project working on this.
At present, there is no effort in this area. However, participation from various people is required to make it happen, namely; * Interested developers. * Interested users with use-cases. * "Academics" with theories. For instance, even the word "Clustering" is perhaps too ambiguous or too wide in this context, and we may instead be focusing on several indvidual areas that makes up Clustering as you probably perceive it; * Scalability. * System Fault Tolerance. * Parallelization. and possibly others. I would say that since no effort has started, any stable products are at least a year away, so don't hold your breath - - - - - chime in and help out :o) Cheers Niclas -- +---------//-------------------+ | http://www.bali.ac | | http://niclas.hedhman.org | +------//----------------------+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
