Re: available resource declaration language(s)

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, David Santo Orcero wrote:

> > I would suggest that we not give up quickly on the idea of having common
> > components and APIs.  I believe that some implementations of components will
> 
>  It is not giving up the idea; I thing that there is some subsystems
> that may be common, and some not. I thing that the API would be
> different, but we can rehuse losts of code between the different
> projects.

That would only be true if you have a monolithic piece of
clustering software.

When you actually "plug in" every part on a component basis,
the APIs used between components can be equal for both types
of clusters...

(eg.  "grab lock" or "send message")

regards,

Rik
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