On Apr 6, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Russell E Glaue wrote: > > On 04/05/2012 02:49 PM, Kevan Miller wrote: >> >> On Apr 5, 2012, at 9:50 AM, Russell E Glaue wrote: >> >>> "Clustering features are not available in the current 3.0-beta branch, so >>> add some profiles to not build it, thus save the build time." >>> >>> Is commit 1309635 related to this? >>> >>> >>> Is someone able to explain why WADI Clustering and Plugin Farming are not >>> available in the 3.0-beta branch? Is it broken? >> >> Hi Russell, >> The WADI project seems to be largely dormant. Without anyone willing to >> bring the function forward, I don't think anyone has looked at trying to get >> it to work on a 3.0 base. >> >> Is WADI important to you? >> >> --kevan >> > > I'm wanting to get Geronimo up in my employer's web farms, and finally > getting multiple instance support was a huge step forward for me. But now > removing support for clustering is a step backward. We had been planning on > its use. > > Some mechanism is important to anyone who wants web user sessions to have > persistence among multiple clustered/loadbalanced Geronimo servers. And we > have had (used to anyway) lots of conversations on the importance of Geronimo > clustering capabilities and how to do it. > https://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDEV/clustering-initial-discussion.html > > Yes.., we can use other 3rd party like Terracotta, but that does not make > Geronimo enterprise-ready out-of-the-box. And the terracotta plugin is > probably not updated for 3.0. > https://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDEV/clustering-geronimo-with-open-terracotta.html > > If we remove WADI support, will we replace it with some other mechanism to > share web user sessions among Geronimo instances? Or will we tell users to > rely on tomcat's and jetty's native session replication and management? This > alternative will not be a clean configuration, since the changes would have > manually to go into tomcat and jetty server config files - not deployed as > plans.
OK. So, for session replication, most people that I know of use Tomcat native clustering (https://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC30/tomcat-native-clustering.html). Does that not work for you? If we can go into specific issues, that would be great... Great conversation to be having. Thanks! --kevan
