Re: A proposal for a General Clustering Framework

[Greg Lindahl <lindahl@conservativecomputer.com>]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:56:37PM -0600, Alan Robertson wrote:

> > 1) We simply define a new 'lightweight' transport.
> 
> The transport in the architecture heartbeat implements provides for multiple
> "pluggable" transports.  The framework will do the same.  So, we don't
> define a single transport, but a transport API, and leave the rest to the
> plugins.

This is good. In particular, you could imagine a simple pub/sub system
that would broadcast all published data, and if the local system
doesn't have a subscription, it discards it. Or you could have a
central server that distributes data only to the actual
subscribers. Can you write an API flexible enough to allow both
implementations?

-- g

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