Hi Kevin, It would be great to have such high level interfaces. It could be something that you could contribute :) . We havent had the bandwidth to provide such interfaces for zookeeper. It would be great to have all such recipes as a part of contrib package of zookeeper.
mahadev On 1/9/09 11:44 AM, "Kevin Burton" <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote: > OK.... so it sounds from the group that there are still reasons to provide > rope in ZK to enable algorithms like leader election. > Couldn't ZK ship higher level interfaces for leader election, mutexes, > semapores, queues, barriers, etc instead of pushing this on developers? > > Then the remaining APIs, configuration, event notification, and discovery, > can be used on a simpler, rope free API. > > The rope is what's killing me now :) > > Kevin