How about using JMS - Tony
Richard Monson-Haefel wrote:
>
> Randy,
>
> I'm sure you figured this out on your own, but feel I have to comment.
>
> Obviously your needs for parallel processing require a different
> architecture than is provided by EJB. EJB and Microsoft's MTS are both
> Component Transaction Monitors (CTMs), which are build around synchronous
> messaging systems. You are in need, IMHO, of an asynchronous system, which
> is a completely different architecture.
>
> The system you built sounds like it provides excellent throughput and is
> probably very scalable. While I'm strong supporter of EJB, I believe every
> technology has its place. In this case, EJB is not a good fit.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Richard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mcree, Randy
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 3/12/99 10:49 AM
> Subject: Re: Modeling an application with parallelism using EJB (reply)
>
> > Sounds like the RDBMS does all the hard work anyway.
>
> Actually, no. That is part of the problem, a single SQL query, no matter
> how
> complex, only involves one cpu. That cpu can touch as many discs as
> necessary, but the single cpu limits the speed. So this application
> tries to
> get as many SQL queries going as possible, up to some tuning limit which
> depends on the optimal number of simultaneous SQL queries per cpu.
>
> (Typically talking sixteen or more cpus and a room full of discs)
>
> As a middleware developer I would like the customer to be able to write
> a
> straightforward EJB application and then get it to scale to this size
> system...
>
> Randy McRee
>
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