> Imagine a world where jboss is installed everywhere - client and server.
;)

You're talking about (more evenly) distributed systems (a.k.a. P2P)?  I
think you're still going to need a delineation of roles -- some nodes are
going to be thicker than others.  You don't want to start up an entire JBoss
stack just to run JNotepad (fictional).  Likewise, I'd imagine you don't
want all of your client side applications running in the same JVM.  It seems
to me that a measure of fault tolerance is worth the extra memory use (by
starting up separate VMs) in this case (although I'm interested in arguments
to the contrary).

It seems to me that when you're designing a node in a distributed system,
you start out by defining the role/functionality.  Then take the most
minimal JBoss kernel.  Then start stacking on functionality until you have
what you want.

What makes this better than client-server, IMO, is that all nodes (should)
share a common architecture.  That way, server-side code can easily be
pushed to the client for added performance.  So JNotepad uses a Web-service
based remote spellchecker.  You like it?  OK, download spellchecker.sar, and
any "server" modules that it depends on.

What makes this worse than client-server is that it doesn't exist yet, AFAIK
:) ...

  - Matt


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Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] JMX on the client side?


> I think James had more esoteric plans...
>
> -danch
>

Right.. I'm not talking about Jboss proper, I'm speaking of a rich
client platform that uses jboss as its service arch kernel. Imagine a
world where jboss is installed everywhere - client and server. ;)

James


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