JBoss High Availability and Clustering Topics

• Clustering FAQ

• JBoss AS 5 Clustering Changes
• JBoss AS 5 Clustering Guide

• Web Clustering

  • Tomcat Clustering

  • JBoss AS 5 web clustering configuration changes
  • Support for passivation to disk of clustered web sessions

  • Basic HttpSessionReplication-Apache/JBoss/Tomcat

  • Using mod_jk

  • mod_cluster

  • Best Practices

  • Internal HTTP Loadbalancer

• JPA/Hibernate Entity Caching
  • Improved JPA/Hibernate Second Level Caching in AS 5
    
  • Using JBoss Cache as a Hibernate Second Level Cache reference manual.
    • Version for Hibernate 3.3, JBoss AS 5.0.x, JBoss AS 5.1.x, EAP 5.0
    • Version for Hibernate 3.5, JBoss AS 6.x

• HA-JMS

  • JMS Clustering with JBoss Messaging (AS 5+ and EAP 4.3+)
    • Configuring JBM as an HA Singleton

  • High Availability JMS with JBossMQ (AS 4.2 and earlier)
    

• HASingleton

  • The deploy-hasingleton Directory and related BarrierController

    • Deploy EJB3 timer beans in cluster using Barrier method

  • Accessing an HASingleton service remotely

  • Handling Cluster Merges -- HASingleton and the "Split-Brain" Syndrome

• Farm

  • Farm Service in AS 5
    

  • Deploying an application to the cluster (farm)

  • Deploying and Undeploying farmed applications using JMX

• HA-JNDI

  • New HA-JNDI implementation using JBossCache

  • HA-JNDI Performance

  • Using HA-JNDI within the cluster (JBoss 4.0.x)

• Load Balancing

  • EJB Loadbalancing Policies (AKA WLM or WorkLoad Management)

    • Transaction Sticky Load Balancing Policies

  • Using mod_jk

  • Internal HTTP loadbalancer

  • MBean invocation loadbalancing

  • Netscaler Load Balancer

• Misc

  • Setting up multiple instances of JBoss on the same machine

  • Clustering in JBoss Versions

  • I want to have two isolated clusters on the same network

  • Changing the Partition Name of a Cluster

  • EJB2 Recovery from Cluster Shutdowns

  • JGroups ChannelFactory and Shared Transport
  • CacheManager Service
  • Configuring Applications For Both Clustered And Non Clustered Environments
  • Clustered EJB3 Bean Serializable Requirements
  • Clustering Troubleshooting Ideas

Additional Info

• AS Clustering project main page (starting page)

• Forum

• Roadmap and issues

• AS Clustering Testsuite

Demos

• ClusteringDemoUsingDukesBankJ2EE1.3

• ClusteringDemoUsingDukesBankJ2EE1.4

• Basic Cluster Test

• JBoss Clustering Webinar (requires registration)

Design Discussion Wikis

• JBoss Cache Buddy Replication

• JBoss Cache Partition

• ModClusterDesign

• ManagedObject interface for AS ChannelFactory
• Action plan for Infinispan integration

Related notes

• An article which covers HASingleton and other related clustering services in JBoss 3.2

• Article - Intro to JBoss 3 clustering

• Load Balancing and Failover in the JBoss Application Server