Corrected link to Masood's Blog
http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/date/20061109
Shreedhar Ganapathy wrote:
> Hello folks
> We are happy to inform you of the beginnings of Project Shoal
> <https://shoal.dev.java.net>, a GlassFish community project, and
> another Sun Microsystems contribution to the open source world.
>
> Project Shoal is the culmination of an early dream and a very unique
> collaboration between the JXTA community and GlassFish community that
> was achieved through both technical contributions and critical
> management support.
>
> Project Shoal offers a pluggable dynamic clustering framework that
> allows a product to be clustered at runtime. Processes join a
> predefined group and communicate through simple APIs, be notified of
> group events, and leave the complexity of group and member discovery,
> network addressing, and protocols to the Group Management Service core
> of Shoal.
>
> Shoal will be inside the guts of GlassFish v2 providing the requisite
> Group Management Infrastructure for value added features such as
> Automatic Delegated Transaction Recovery, Cluster Health Monitoring,
> IIOP Failover Load Balancer, Timer Migrations, In-Memory Replication,
> etc.
>
> The use of the framework is not restricted to the Application Server
> and can be used as such as the foundation for a grid deployment, or
> deployment of a highly available service, etc. In fact its usage in
> various situations as a solution is only limited by imagination. :)
>
> Here are some blog references that gives some insights into our past
> work that has led to fruition in the form of this new contribution
> from Sun Microsystems to the open source community. Be sure to visit
> the project website as well (https://shoal.dev.java.net)
>
> *Blog
> <http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hamada/archive/2006/11/dynamic_cluster.html>*by
> Mohamed Abdelaziz (JXTA)
> *Blog <http://blogs.sun.com/tra/entry/glassfish_%2B_jxta_%3D_shoal>*by
> Bernard Traversat (JXTA)
> *Blog <http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/date/20061108>*by Masood
> (Max) Mortazavi (Java DB)
> *Blog
> <http://blogs.sun.com/shreedhar/entry/project_shoal_graduates_with_source>*by
> Shreedhar Ganapathy (GlassFish)
>
> Happy Clustering !
>
> Best regards on behalf of the Shoal team
>
> Shreedhar Ganapathy
>