Ruwan,

Sure, I will first wrap up the AMQP transport and then do this guide.

Regards,

Rajith

On Jan 30, 2008 10:39 AM, Ruwan Linton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Rajith,
>
> By the way, would you like to contribute a guide on clustering and its
> limitations to synapse? (since you know the internals of axis2 clustering
> stuff very well, I think it is good if you can contribute to this)
>
> Thanks,
> Ruwan
>
>
> On Jan 30, 2008 7:56 PM, Rajith Attapattu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > My bad, bcos I initially sent it to the wrong list :(.
> >
> > Rajith
> >
> >
> > On Jan 30, 2008 4:30 AM, Asankha C. Perera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >  Guys
> > >
> > > Please do not CC: mails to the old synapse-dev@ mailing list.. The
> > > dev@ list now works fine and so you can all discontinue using the old
> > > lists.. :-)
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > asankha
> > >
> > >
> > > Ruwan Linton wrote:
> > >
> > > Rajith,
> > >
> > >
> > > > > > Yep I am in agreement. The reason I asked about clustering is
> > > > > > bcos of the recent thread on session mgt and the need to have the
> > > > > > session-mediator state replicated across the cluster (I hope I 
> > > > > > didn't
> > > > > > misunderstand the requirments here). I was wondering if this sort 
> > > > > > of thing
> > > > > > is trivial to implement. Like can we replicate any mediator state 
> > > > > > if we
> > > > > > choose to in a trivial way?
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes it is, I think the session-mediator has to take the
> > > > > replication in to account (i.e. another state full mediator for
> > > > > synapse :)). If you are using the ConfigurationContext of axis2 
> > > > > (basically
> > > > > the whole context hierarchy) to store the data (for example, the 
> > > > > session
> > > > > data table mapped using a session id) you just need to call
> > > > > ConfigurationContext.flush(); to replicate any data which has been
> > > > > changed after the last replication. Additionally if you need to just
> > > > > replicate some of the properties of the cfgCtx then you can call the 
> > > > > the
> > > > > flush method with the property names (see the clustering API for the 
> > > > > exact
> > > > > signature of the method, I don't remember that exactly).
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ruwan, once again thank you for the detailed answer. I really
> > > > appreciate it. The reason behind the question "can we replicate any 
> > > > mediator
> > > > state if we choose to in a trivial way?" was to figure out if the 
> > > > current
> > > > axis2 clustering support is sufficient.
> > > >
> > > > However we have to be careful when replicating mediator state
> > > > especially when there are concurrent modifications on different nodes. 
> > > > This
> > > > can cause undesired affects and it is a limitation in our current 
> > > > clustering
> > > > implementation. So even for the session map, if two nodes modify the map
> > > > concurrently we may have issues. This doc explains the limitations
> > > > http://ws.apache.org/axis2/1_3/clustering-guide.html.
> > > > So perhaps it's worthwhile to highlight these issues to synapse
> > > > users who want to tap into the clustering support.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes, we know this limitation is there. Even we have a JIRA for the
> > > Throttle mediator [1]. This is because there is no distributed locking
> > > mechanism in axis2-clustering implementation. But again we have not came
> > > across any requirement to support that level of replication to happen from
> > > users and most of them are fine with this error.
> > >
> > > [1] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNAPSE-180
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ruwan
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ruwan Linton
> > > http://www.wso2.org - "Oxygenating the Web Services Platform"
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> > Rajith Attapattu
> > Red Hat
> > blog: http://rajith.2rlabs.com/
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Ruwan Linton
> http://www.wso2.org - "Oxygenating the Web Services Platform"
>



-- 
Regards,

Rajith Attapattu
Red Hat
blog: http://rajith.2rlabs.com/

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