On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Kevan Miller <[email protected]>wrote:
> I took a look at the failover demo currently in sandbox, over the weekend. > I made some updates to get it building/running on my Mac OS machine. > > I like the demo. It's a good demonstration of Geronimo's capabilities. I'd > be interested in seeing a formal release of the demo. A few demo and > Geronimo related issues we could be thinking about: > > 1) Windows support. The current demo is *nix-based. For all I know it may > only run on Mac OS. > Added windows scripts to make the sample support windows. > > 2) The failover demo is including Grinder. Grinder is a great tool. > However, it contains LGPL-licensed artifacts. So, we are going to remove it > from the failover demo. We can provide configuration files and the > grinder.py "client". However, if users want to run the demo using Grinder, > they will need to download Grinder on their own. We can provide download > instructions, but should instruct users to review the Grinder licensing > before doing so... > Modified/added some scripts to strip grinder from our build. Also updated the instruction to tell users how to download and configure the grinder by themselves. > > 3) Geronimo currently requires multicast for the failover scenario. This is > great. However, we should also offer unicast-based support, also. I > frequently encounter users who are unable to use multicast in their > environments. Providing unicast support would be a valuable addition, I > think. > --kevan -- Shawn
