Hi Michael, I think most of our documentation is outdated. So your best bet is [1]. I look forward to your feedback.
@Scott you seem to have good experience with clustering, It would be really great if we can have your eyes on the code or some testing of the functionality. [1] https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/cluster-howto.html Cheers, -- Taher Alkhateeb On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Michael Brohl <michael.br...@ecomify.de> wrote: > Hi Taher, > > Am 14.06.17 um 19:56 schrieb Taher Alkhateeb: > >> Okay, after a little bit of investigation I think I got what caused the >> crashes on my machine: >> - I removed "cluster.registerManager(manager);" from the code base >> because >> it was commented out in the original code base >> > > That explains why I didn't get these errors with the pre-refactoring setup > :-) > > - I commented out "<property name="mcast-bind-addr" value="192.168.2.1"/>" >> from ofbiz-component.xml because it was conflicting with my local LAN >> setup. >> > > I did the same with the current trunk and now OFBiz is starting with > enabled clustering. > > After doing the above and testing the cluster, everything worked. Bug >> again, given that I'm treading in new territory, appreciate all the help. >> > > Do we have some documentation on how to setup the cluster environment for > testing, to have some kind of reference setup? > It would help to make testing easier. > > I will try to review your patch in the next days. > > Regards, > Michael > > > The new patch is available at >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9392 >> >> Cheers, >> >> Taher Alkhateeb >> >> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Taher Alkhateeb < >> slidingfilame...@gmail.com >> >>> wrote: >>> So the good thing is that the refactoring exercise surfaced this issue. >>> Based on feedback from Scott and Michael I suspect that the issue might >>> be >>> perhaps minor such as a missing configuration or dependency that's >>> causing >>> all these errors. >>> >>> I'll try to dig out the root cause and your help would be great to try >>> and >>> zoom in on the problem preferably on the refactored code, but even >>> finding >>> the root cause on existing code would greatly help. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Taher >>> >>> On Jun 13, 2017 4:16 AM, "Scott Gray" <scott.g...@hotwaxsystems.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> The project I'm currently on is actively using clustering (session >>>> replication) and I know for certain this isn't the only project nor are >>>> we >>>> the only vendor to use it. I'm using an older version of OFBiz though >>>> so >>>> I >>>> can't confirm if the latest codebase has it working. It can be tricky >>>> to >>>> set up and does have a tendency to crash ofbiz during startup if you >>>> don't >>>> have it configured correctly. >>>> >>>> Definitely a -1 for removal. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Scott >>>> >>>> On 13 June 2017 at 08:57, Taher Alkhateeb <slidingfilame...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Everyone, >>>>> >>>>> In reference to [1] and the refactoring work, and after multiple >>>>> >>>> different >>>> >>>>> tests, I came to realize that Tomcat clustering implementation is >>>>> broken >>>>> (both before and after the refactoring). The reasons are complex but >>>>> >>>> they >>>> >>>>> essentially have to do with setting up the right parameters for the >>>>> cluster. So I suspect no one is using this feature? >>>>> >>>>> It is therefore, my recommendation to remove clustering from >>>>> CatalinaContainer which would substantially reduce complexity of both >>>>> >>>> the >>>> >>>>> component configuration file and the accompanying source code which >>>>> >>>> would >>>> >>>>> shave off at least 120 lines of code. >>>>> >>>>> WDYT >>>>> >>>>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9392 >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Taher Alkhateeb < >>>>> slidingfilame...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hey folks, >>>>>> >>>>>> It was very painful and slow, but I finally got a working almost >>>>>> full-rewrite of the CatalinaContainer. I need help with testing, >>>>>> >>>>> reviews, >>>> >>>>> and code improvements. >>>>>> >>>>>> Details are found in [1]. There are no functional changes, just a >>>>>> >>>>> rewrite. >>>>> >>>>>> I appreciate all the help and feedback. >>>>>> >>>>>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9392 >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> >>>>>> Taher Alkhateeb >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> > >
