RE: Need to deploy a gateway

2007-09-25 Thread David Leangen
eral OPS4J > Subject: Re: Need to deploy a gateway > > > Dave, > > Yes, you are right! Mixing in the network layer and the app > layer may not > be a good idea since it is several layers on top of it. I might > take a look > again at Squid but the concept is to be a

Re: Need to deploy a gateway

2007-09-25 Thread Rick Litton
performance. I tend to look at the load balancer for high availability though. -- rick - Original Message - From: "David Leangen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General OPS4J" Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:32 AM Subject: Re: Need to deploy a gateway > >

Re: Need to deploy a gateway

2007-09-25 Thread Rick Litton
Interesting approach. Let's take it offline and I'll send you more questions. ;) Thanks! -- rick - Original Message - From: "Niclas Hedhman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General OPS4J" Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 1:25 AM Subject: Re: Need t

Re: Need to deploy a gateway

2007-09-24 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 11:49, Rick Litton wrote: > My first concern is to ensure reliability by avoiding an SPF > (single point of failure). Also, I'm not so > sure that a single HttpService service bundle can do the job, i.e. it > doesn't become a bottleneck. First, I would use a DNS tri

Re: Need to deploy a gateway

2007-09-24 Thread David Leangen
To: "General OPS4J" > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 11:49 PM > Subject: Re: Need to deploy a gateway > > > > > > Rick, > > > > If it were me, if you are talking about load balancing or some other > > kind of replication, I'd use some ex

Re: Need to deploy a gateway

2007-09-24 Thread Rick Litton
From: "David Leangen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General OPS4J" Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 11:49 PM Subject: Re: Need to deploy a gateway > > Rick, > > If it were me, if you are talking about load balancing or some other > kind of replication, I'd u

Re: Need to deploy a gateway

2007-09-24 Thread David Leangen
Rick, If it were me, if you are talking about load balancing or some other kind of replication, I'd use some existing clustering framework rather than building my own with OSGi. If you are just talking about routing based on the application, then I'd use a proxy (such as apache/mod_proxy or Squi

Need to deploy a gateway

2007-09-24 Thread Rick Litton
Hi everyone, I apologize for the long absence from this ML since moving to a new role (job). But now I'm planning to set up an OSGi gateway as an entry point to a web portal project. The gateway will accept requests (via http) and route each request to the appropriate service handler (a cluste