JCluster looks very promising.  It seams fairly straight forward.  I
will try replacing the JGroups code in our distributed lock with
JCluster code over the weekend.

-Mike

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 20:06, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> > Let me see if I understand correctly.  Our distributed locking code
> > could be compiled into James but in order for people to use it, they
> > would have to download JGroups on their own?  Would the build system
> > have to download JGroups to build?  I'm assuming including JGroups in
> > CVS would also be a form of distributing JGroups.
> 
> As I understand it, the author of JGroups understands that LGPL is a
> problematic license, but doesn't want to change it.  Instead, he and others
> developed a new package called JCluster (https://jcluster.dev.java.net) that
> does for clustering what java.sql does for JDBC.  Basically, you write your
> code to JCluster, and it uses whatever clustering package is configured, in
> this case JGroups.
> 
> James Strachan would have better information, so I am cc'ing him.
> 
> Alternatively, when we can see your repository subclass, perhaps we can
> figure out another solution, if the only thing that JGroups is being used
> for is distributed locking.
> 
>       --- Noel
> 
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