Re: A proposal for a General Clustering Framework

[Michael E Brown <michael_e_brown@dell.com>]

xml-rpc and/or soap is a great idea. I've just been using it in one of my
projects to connect some C<-->Perl<-->PHP (and possibly VB on windows in
the future) and it is awesome.
--
Michael Brown

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, David Brower wrote:

> 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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