On Jun 13, 2007, at 6:19 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
So what does the version number represent exactly? I assumed it was basically the state of active members of the cluster at a point in time.
Last time I helped with clustering (on another J2EE server), the term thrown around was "cluster topology", which is not only the membership of the server but the organization of the nodes in the cluster. Over time servers join and leave the cluster and nodes can be repurposed. After each mutation of the topology, the version number would increment (or the hash changes).
-dain
