Also, I would wonder if you are offering some IPC/shared memory
space accesible by all the VMs, don't you have to modify the VM
code itself to accomplish this? This sounds like a real high-maintenance
high quality risk effort to me.

>From: Jeff Schnitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Re: Entity beans, clistering and scalability
>Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:47:20 -0800
>
> >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
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