Tuweni Dev's - I am considering the possibility of a usecase for Plumtree and would like to get the community's thoughts.
I'd like multiple servers that have embedded Jetty servers to be able to be aware of each other. I am considering using the gossip protocol support provided by the plumtree library in Tuweni. Let's consider this a state server usecase for now. I want to be able to register a new participant with any other participant and that information be propagated across all participating instances. Performance isn't necessarily critical due to the nature of the state being replicated in this usecase and we are probably looking at a number in 10s of participating nodes rather than anything in 100s or more. There may also be multiple replication types. For instance, instances colocated in the same cluster may need to replicate state that should not be replicated to instances in remote deployments while other data should be. I'm wondering a couple things: 1. Does this sound like a valid plumtree usecase? 2. Could we get a dev tutorial page for plumtree that is similar to that for net [1]? The getting started with plumtree page is currently empty [2]. 3. I have looked at the gossip app sample but have quite got the programming model teased out from the app implementation details. The general programming mode description in #2 would be helpful. 4. Would you recommend using vert.x (as is done in gossip) for this within the Jetty based server or something more native to JEE and/or the Jetty server? Jetty specific Handlers would be portable across Jetty servers, JEE servlets or filters or the like would be portable across EE servers. Perhaps, if vert.x is the recommendation it would be more appropriate as a custom handler? I could help flesh out the getting started with plumtree page once I get the ball rolling. That is assuming this usecase seems to sound reasonable. Thoughts? thanks! --larry 1. https://tuweni.apache.org/tutorials/networking/getting-started-with-net/ 2. https://tuweni.apache.org/tutorials/networking/getting-started-with-plumtree/
