Re: A proposal for a General Clustering Framework

[David Brower <David.Brower@oracle.com>]

IMO, IBM and Compaq both Got It Right when they
put an generalized pub/sub event system in the middle
of their cluster frameworks.   I've been pointing this
out for a while, but it doesn't seem to have gotten any
traction-- neither Tweedie's old proposal or Robertson's
here have one AFAICT.

FWIW, xml-rpc is a perfectly fine mechanism for such
an event system, once you get the subscription mechanism
in place.  You probably also want more authentication and
authorization than is used on things that assume private
networks for cluster traffic.

-dB

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