Re: Entity beans, clistering and scalability

[Jeff Schnitzer]

>From: Bobby Woolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>GSJ has what we call Extreme Clustering, which can be thought of as VM
>pooling. It's like session bean pooling, where a client is given a bean
>that's available. When the client is finished, the bean is
>returned to the
> [...]

Pardon my (perhaps) naivete, but why on earth would starting multiple
VMs on the same box increase scalability?  It would seem like you're
just going to consume a lot of extra resources, when all you really
should need to do is start more threads.

I can understand the advantage if your OS/JVM only supports green
threads, but then I would offer the suggestion that it's time to update
your JVM.

Please tell me what I'm missing.

Thanks,
Jeff Schnitzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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