Re: [JBoss-dev] Farming and Clustering

[Andreas Schaefer]

Hi Geeks   No, the actual farming stuff is to enable an administrator to setup a farm (a set of individual computers) allowing him to deploy a service on all of the participating members.   For sure the features of the farming must go somehow into clustering because the deployment on a logical server must end up in a deployment on all the physical boxes.   At the end a cluster is a special form of a farm !!   My idea of a farm is that it works similar to the Internet allowing to deploy a service without having a centralized authority (the farm tries any path until the service gets deployed except the node is completely isolated from any other member of the farm).   The deployment from a centralized configuration server is just a small step.   Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Burke To: Jboss-Development@Lists. Sourceforge. Net Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 10:42 AM Subject: [JBoss-dev] Farming and Clustering Is the new Farming stuff from Andreas the thing where a JBoss instance can be booted from a URL like http://foo.bar.com/jboss.jcml ?   I think we should market the Farming stuff as a "Clustering" feature. Something like....   JBoss 3.0 Clustering Features: - Farming, Cluster nodes boot up from centralized configuration. - EJB Failover and load-balancing - Cluster-wide JNDI with failover and load-balancing - RMI Failover and load-balancing.   Thoughts?   Bill