On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Stefan Egli <e...@adobe.com> wrote: > Does the fact that JGroups uses LGPL at the moment (they plan to switch to > APL 'soon') prevent it from being used in Sling?
AFAIK LGPL is a blocker, see [1] Robert [1]: http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x > > Cheers, > Stefan > > On 7/3/13 3:05 PM, "Carsten Ziegeler" <cziege...@apache.org> wrote: > >>Thanks for taking this up, Stefan. >> >>I think we should also try to close down the first version of the >>discovery >>api and release this, so other parts of our code can really rely on this >>api. >> >>Apart from that, I don't have a strong preference, although it would be >>nice to just use Apache stuff :) >> >>Regards >>Carsten >> >> >>2013/7/1 Stefan Egli <e...@adobe.com> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've created SLING-2939 [0] to track an additional, 3rd party based >>> implementation of the discovery.api. The idea is to complement the >>> discovery.impl (which is ootb, entirely sling-based) with a more mature, >>> specialized, scalable implementation based on a clustering library. I've >>> summarized some pros/cons of possible candidates, including some already >>> received feedback in the ticket. I would appreciated further feedback! >>> >>> It looks like Zookeeper/Curator would be a very good fit, >>>requirement-wise >>> but there was also an argument for using JGroups (or something like >>> Infinispan ontop of it), although that's LGPL at the moment. >>> >>> At the same time, it might be a good time to discuss if there's any need >>> for api changes, like 'topology-wide leader' or >>> 'grouping/spliting/organizing topologies'. In discussions surrounding >>> topologies, other more consensus-like topics came up (things which >>> zookeeper/curator would cover nicely). The question here is though if >>>that >>> fits into the discovery api itself or if that's not something completely >>> different and out-of-scope of discovery. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Cheers, >>> Stefan >>> -- >>> [0] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-2939 >>> >>> >> >> >>-- >>Carsten Ziegeler >>cziege...@apache.org > -- Sent from my (old) computer
