On 03/12/09 06:42, Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine wrote:
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> On Mar 12, 2009, at 12:02, glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
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>> Ok thank you very much for the reply. The video was very interesting,
>> but didn't help so much since it only spoke about HTTP-load balancing.
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> Indeed. Another one is coming up I understand. Right John? ;)
>
Some day. I do these in my non-existent spare time :-)
>> But starting from the links you gave me, I finally managed to find
>> out some clues of a load-balancing other than HTTP.
>>
>> Here: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-4341/abdbd?a=view they are
>> speaking about Setting up RMI-IIOP Load Balancing and Failover for
>> applications running in the application client container (ACC), and
>> there: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-4336/beakv?a=view , they
>> are explaining what is the ACC and that it contains EJB. Now I am
>> looking for an evidence that an EJB3 (and if possible JNDI)
>> load-balancing exists, since the EJB version is not precised.
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> GlassFish is in its second major release and third year of supporting
> Java EE 5. EJB load-balancing is there for all versions of EJBs, 2.x
> and 3.0.
>
>> As for Glassfish v3, it doesn't seem very interesting at all: this
>> comparison:
>> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/comparing_v2_and_v3.html shows
>> that a lot of very interesting features like EJB3, JMS, Application
>> Client Container, load balancing and clustering are only available in
>> version 2
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> The comparison is between v2 and v3 "Prelude" which is essentially a
> web container at this point.
> If EJB container is what you need, stick to v2 until v3 ships with
> full EE and clustering support.
> Many people are excited about v3 (modular architecture with fast
> startup, load-on demand, small memory footprint, etc...). You may not
> be in that category which is fine. v3 is not a replacement for v2 just
> yet.
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>> If I can make a little remark, there are some things to improve in
>> the communication. It is unbelievable that such very important
>> features like EJB load balancing are hidden in the far bottom of the
>> documentation, and that you have to dig so much to find documentation
>> about it. When you compare to JOnAS' beautiful document
>> http://jonas.objectweb.org/JONAS_5_1_0/doc/doc-en/html/clustering_guide.html ,
>> glassfish's documentation is far behind.
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> thanks. I'll pass this along to the documentation team (note we have a
> dedicated docs_at_glassfish.dev.java.net mailing list set up for such
> feedback).
> EJB clustering is very important de many. It's always hard to strike a
> balance between the many features of a product.
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> cheers,
> -Alexis
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