Hi Kazem,
Just wanted to let you know that a new feature was added around November
of last year. The feature was about adding a new notification for
instances which have joined the group and are ready for processing
client requests. This notification is different from the Join
notification. The Join notification only tells the other instances that
a particular instance has joined the group. It does not mean that the
instance is completely up and ready to serve.
You can read more about this on Shreedhar's blog :
http://blogs.sun.com/shreedhar/date/20080117
This new feature needs to be tested. Testing will be very simple and all
we need to know is if each of the instances in a group send out the
JoinedAndReadyEvent. Since instances start at different times, its
possible that an instance A will not see this event from instance B.
This is perfectly acceptable. All we need to know is that instances A
and B have sent out this event.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanks
Sheetal
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