What a thread !! :) I was with a customer yesterday and I just now browse the thread.
Before dealing with Apache and Karaf inclusion of Guillaume work, I think that we need to compare and discuss from a technology point of view. My initial e-mail was exactly to start to discuss about different ways to achieve clustering (existing ones, planned ones, etc) and compare our point of view.
That's why we need to consider and compare Ioannis and Guillaume works and maybe conclude that it's a kind of merge of both, or pick up some implementations of each.
I have an absolute and total trust in Guillaume, especially about his Apache fiber (keep in mind that Guillaume is a ASF member). If he proposed his cluster implementation, he knows that we can use it in Karaf.
So, before discussing about the "source" of the implementation, I think that we need to focus on the technical layer and discuss the different way to see the cluster. I don't care where the implementation comes from (Fuse, Talend, others), if the implementation is a good one, and if the community accepts this implementation, I can't see any problem.
We are all Apache commiters after all :) My 2 cents Regards JB On 04/13/2011 10:19 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote:
Hi all, Ioannis made a great work by using Hazelcast to create a cluster of Karaf nodes. He has already blogged around: http://iocanel.blogspot.com/2011/03/karaf-clustering-using-hazelcast.html I like the design and I think it could be very interesting to embed this feature in Karaf 3.0.0. Ioannnis has kindly accepted to donate this work to Karaf. The next steps are: - think about an assemblies extension to provide cluster ready distribution - document Karaf clustering in manual (mostly based on the Ioannis' blog) - add an example of Karaf cluster usage. I propose to work with Ioannis around these steps. WDYT ? Are you OK to ship Karaf clustering using Hazelcast in Karaf ? Do you think that we need a kind of "agnostic" layer around clustering (especially if some of us already started to work around a different kind of Karaf clusters) ? Thanks Regards JB
