On 4 Nov 2003, at 22:06, Bruce Snyder wrote:
This one time, at band camp, James Strachan said:
JS>> JGroups is out of the question for Geronimo because of license. It's
JS>> LGPL.
JS>
JS>
JS>There's a BSD abstraction wrapper being developed right now, so soon
JS>we'll be able to use JGroups
JS>
JS>https://jcluster.dev.java.net/
Interesting. So how do you know what this is besides 'Clustering for Java?' I notice that Bela Ban is involved. I'll have to speak with him to get more details.
Did you notice that it falls beneaths Sun's incubator? ;-)
Yep - I've been talking to Bela about this for some time. Various folks at Apache & Sun would like to use JGroups but are put off due to the viral LGPL licence. So Bela's agreed to create JCluster, which is an abstraction API above JGroups which should be possible to implement via JMS if need be. A side effect of JCluster is that its much easier to use than the JMS API and has support for clustering (membership monitoring & state transfer etc).
James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
