In JCS (Java Caching System) in Turbine Stratum there is a rough distributed session layer. JCS might also be useful for storing session data even if it is not distributed.
http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/stratum/JavaCachingSystem.html JavaGroups may be good for a JCS distribution plugin as well. I'll take a look. . . . Aaron > -----Original Message----- > From: Filip Hanik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 9:12 PM > To: Tomcat Developers List > Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited > > hi, let me introduce myself. > My name is Filip Hanik and I just rejoined this mailing list since my time > has freed up a little bit lately. > I was looking through the source code and the archives and was wondering > what the status Tomcat has on session replication. > > When looking through the source code I saw "package > org.apache.catalina.cluster;" > > anyway, let me get to the point. > I'm one of the developers on an open source project called JavaGroups > (www.javagroups.com). > JavaGroups is a reliable group communication protocol which is perfectly > suitable as a messaging protocol between your cluster nodes. > > Built into JavaGroups you already have > * Reliable multicasting > * Group membership changes (ie you will be notified when nodes in the > cluster crashes or startup) > * Highly configurable protocol stack > * Works out of the box > > This means, that if you already have a cluster implementation, this > already > developed implementation can leverage javagroups as a communication > protocol. > > Since I'm not a developer on Tomcat (Catalina) I can of course not dictate > the decisions that are being made around this subject, but if there is a > possibility for me to help out in the clustering implementation I would be > more than happy to do so. > > have a great weekend. > Filip > > ~ > Namaste - I bow to the divine in you > ~ > Filip Hanik > Software Architect > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.filip.net > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
