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Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 08:38:58 +0100
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From: Andy Piper <andyp@bea.com>
Subject: Re: Was: Clustering: Monitoring... - Now: Clustering:
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The weblogic thin-client works this way - clustering is built into 
the client using portable interceptors and the JDK ORB.

andy

At 04:37 AM 5/5/2006, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists wrote:
>Jules Gosnell wrote:
>>David Blevins wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On May 4, 2006, at 12:57 AM, Jules Gosnell wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>Sort of.  Both your explanations involve smartening the java clients
>>>on the other end of WS or CORBA to play nice.
>>
>>??
>>
>>smart java stubs for RMI over OpenEJB-protocol (what is it called?) or IIOP.
>>
>>for WS, the load-balancer will do it.
>>
>>>The goal of those  protocols is to interop in a language agnostic 
>>>fashion.  WS are all  stateless for EJB, so there is nothing to cluster anyway.
>>
>>stateless calls are still clustered - the load-balancing and 
>>failover considerations still exist - you just do not require 
>>session affinity (stickiness). If you are talking about server-side 
>>requirements, then I agree.
>>
>>>But for  IIOP, would we simply not offer clustering to people 
>>>using CORBA to  interop with clients in other languages or on other platforms?
>>
>>to tell the truth, these cases have escaped my radar - My CORBA 
>>knowledge is pretty thin and I have only really considered it in a 
>>java/java environment - I am sure that Kresten would be much better 
>>positioned to answer this question... I will CC this to him, in 
>>case he would like to pick it up...
>corba is not far from RMI, and the corba implementation that you 
>use, create their own stubs, and those stubs can do the same stuff
>as smart RMI stubs. I'm sure that corba could even do dynamic 
>proxies in some sort of sense, they werent able to when I used it a 
>long time ago, but if the technology has kept up, then yes, you 
>should be able to build in significant logic in the clients.
>
>Filip

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