Hi Johan,
Thank you for your interest in Shoal. The best place to start
learning more about Shoal is shoal.dev.java.net
Here, on the right hand side, you should see links to Shoal Overview
Presentation and Shoal Clustering User's Guide.
Regarding your question : groups are mainly clusters of server
instances. MemberToken is the unique identifier for each instance in
the group.
The links above will help.
Please let us know if you have any questions/suggestions.
Thanks
Sheetal
On Mar 6, 2008, at 7:23 AM, Johan Mårtensson XX wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking in to using the GMS service and have had a hard time
> finding comprehensive documentation regarding the entities involved
> and the behavior of GMS. Is this the right list for these questions
> or should I be sending to the devel-list instead?
>
> My understanding, as based on google :), is that there are three
> major entitites: Groups, Components, MemberTokens. My somewhat
> educated guesses are that Groups span across a cluster, Components
> are sub-groups in a Group, and that MemberTokens are unique
> identifiers for a user in the cluster. Is this a correct description?
>
> I would be very grateful for any further reading.
>
> Regards,
>
> Johan Mårtensson
>