Interesting work Tommaso. Is this thing similar to Apache Cellar from Karaf ?
Regards, dragos dascalita haut Sent from my iPad > On Nov 2, 2013, at 2:37 PM, Robert Munteanu <romb...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi Tommaso, > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Tommaso Teofili > <tommaso.teof...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> In the last weeks I've been working on an Apache Sling based replication >> module and I'd like to donate it to the project so I'm wondering if that >> may sound interesting for the community. >> >> Its main purpose is to "replicate" data between Sling instances. > > It sounds interesting indeed! > > A quick question - will this module work only between Sling instances, > or will I be able to make it work with external systems? I'm thinking > of integration with upstream proxy caches, like Varnish or Apache > Traffic Server. > > Robert > >> >> Some design concepts : >> - Replication agents are the responsible units for the replication of data >> to a certain endpoint >> - Each replication agent is an OSGi service >> - Configuration of agents happens via OSGi configuration (e.g. by adding >> nodes of type sling:OsgiConfig with certain properties as JSoN files) >> - Configuration of agents include: endpoint, instance authentication, >> transport implementation, binary format for data to be exchanged >> - Each agent manages one or more queues of data packages to be replicated >> >> Main use case is master / slave architectures where data gets created on >> the master and need to be replicated on the slaves which are publicly >> available, or viceversa where data gets created by the user and needs to be >> consistently replicated in the other instances of the architecture. >> >> The current implementation is still a work in progress so don't expect it >> to be full feature but maybe it's worth having it among the extensions or >> either in a sandbox space. >> >> I can create a Jira issue and add the code as a patch / zip file if there's >> interest. >> Looking forward to hear what you think, >> Regards, >> Tommaso
