That's not a network of brokers, it's a single broker with a failover. For a network of brokers you would need multiple databases. (*Chris*)
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:28 AM, joesan <codeintheo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I"m trying to understand the concept behind the network of brokers in > ActiveMQ. What I understand from the documentation is that by having a > network or broker we can get load balancing. I would assume that load > balancing would mean that the messages are sent to either one of the > brokers > (Master or a Slave) depending on the processing capability which is > internal > to ActiveMQ. > > But when I use a shared file system, the Master acquired the lock and the > Slave waits indefinitely to acquire the lock. The Slave does not also start > its transport connectors. So with this being the case, how could a network > of brokers offer load balancing? > > When the Slave does not even have its transport connectors started, how > could the Master load balance the messages that it gets? I somehow do not > understand the idea behind it. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/ActiveMQ-Network-of-Brokers-tp4655435.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
