On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:49 AM, David Blevins <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> On Jan 20, 2010, at 12:15 AM, Kevan Miller wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>
> Agreed.
>
> Currently with the way that everything is designed we theoretically only
> need to replace this class:
>
> org.apache.geronimo.farm.discovery.MulticastDiscoveryAgent
>
> Which is an implementation of the DiscoveryAgent interface. The primary
> job of the DiscoveryAgent is to receive notifications about services coming
> and going and then simply notify the other parts of the system that are
> interested in this information. These "other parts" implement this
> interface:
>
> public interface DiscoveryListener {
> public void serviceAdded(URI service);
> public void serviceRemoved(URI service);
>
> }
>
> So basically the new DiscoveryAgent needs to have a way to receive "service
> added" and "service removed" messages and send that info to the listener.
>
> It seems that a REST implementation of DiscoveryAgent would be very useful
> as a lot of shops use it quite extensively already for various
> administration and it actually lines up pretty close. ServiceAdded might be
> a PUT and serviceRemoved a DELETE.
>
> Seems with something that simple it wouldn't be too hard to do anything
> else that's required to get it to broadcast around.
>
There are some discussions before that we should use WADI instead of
discoveryAgent to track cluster nodes.
http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Pulling-Geronimo-Configuration-td21962048s134.html
I would like to give it a try instead of implementing another discovery
agent.
>
> -David
>
>
--
Shawn
