JBoss Clustering is the Coolest Thing Ever

[alanlewis]

I'm posting this because I am so giddy about my JBoss cluster. Yesterday I bought the clustering documentation from flashline, today I read it and not only was I then able to set up a JBoss cluster, I now understand how JBoss clustering works! Buy the docs. It is the best 5 bucks you will ever spend.

So my cluster right now is one 2 CPU Win2K box and one 4 CPU Win2K box. However, I see a Sun 3500 8-CPU machine sitting over there... Considering how easy it was to set up the cluster I think I'll try adding it. I deployed a "CPU crusher" type of bean on it and then threw a whole bunch of client requests at it. It was beautiful watching all 6 CPUs go to 100%, chugging as best as they could through the nested for loops in the bean.

Surely I'm not the only one who has a big QA lab to use. Lets see somebody with two Superdomes give it a try. Until I hear otherwise, I'm claiming the biggest JBoss cluster, but I'd really like to see someone else take that title.

I'm happy to answer any questions that aren't covered in the documentation. I used the default configuration thats in the docs for clustered stateless session beans and it worked fine. The only difficulty I had was in creating the client. My client code didn't need to be modified at all, but I did have to figure out how to run it under a security manager, which is something I've never done before.

Great job Sacha and Bill!

[marc.fleury]

:D

[slaboure]

:D :D :D :D

[slaboure]

Hello Alan,

> I'm happy to answer any questions that aren't covered
> in the documentation. I used the default
> configuration thats in the docs for clustered
> stateless session beans and it worked fine. The only
> difficulty I had was in creating the client. My
> client code didn't need to be modified at all, but I
> did have to figure out how to run it under a security
> manager, which is something I've never done before.

Thank you for this very positive feedback, I do really appreciate! ;)

For the security manager thing, that is interesting. Have you added the jbossha-client.jar file to the classpath of your client? Do you remember for which class it was complaining if you didn't set a security manager?

Cheers,



Sacha

[bill.burke]

We need more people like you testing out this stuff. Thanks for trying it out and let us know directly any problems you have.

[alanlewis]

> For the security manager thing, that is interesting.
> Have you added the jbossha-client.jar file to the
> classpath of your client? Do you remember for which
> class it was complaining if you didn't set a security
> manager?
>

I tried using the client code again this morning, and now it seems to be working without the security manager. So then it would seem that the only thing you need to do for clients is to make sure that the jbossha-client.jar file is in the CLASSPATH, right?

[slaboure]

Alan,

Yes, with jbossha-client.jar in the client classpath, everything should be fine.

Cheers,


Sacha

[nshashidhara]

Hi
I am new to jboss clustring , can you help me in configure.
i have created two jboss3.2.3 instances on linux machine.
all and all1 .
when i start both instances, nodes are identifing,
but when i shutdown any one one server, request is not going to another instance, please help urgent

[nshashidhara]

Hi
I am new to jboss clustring , can you help me in configure.
i have created two jboss3.2.3 instances on linux machine.
all and all1 .
when i start both instances, nodes are identifing,
but when i shutdown any one one server, request is not going to another instance, please help urgent

this is my mail id

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[glyn_walters]

The problem may be with the lookup code in your client. Are you using HA-JNDI when you create the IntialContext?

[nshashidhara]

No , I am using common JNDI look up, can you assist me how we can do HA-JNDI lookup

[gsureshbabu]

Dear all
I am g suresh babu
Sub:Problems Regarditing to clustering implementation

We have been trying to implement Jboss clustering on two machines.we got only progress those two nodes are appearing in clustering. Two nodes are in Default Partition. we did not change any in jboss cluster-service.xml file.

Changes made for configuration

1.farm-service.xml in server/all/deploy
2.For EJBs execution we made "clustered true" in ejb-jar.xml.

Errors Identified :

1. we tried to exceute from one node ,the client & jar files which are deployed in the
second(second node shutdown) but it was giving me error as JNDI name not bound.
We thought this one we r not getting HotDeployment.
2.we tried with
java.naming.url.provider=node1:1100,node2:1100
in all/sever/conf/jndi.properties file at this one we got Communication Exception
(SocketTimeoutException)
i.e node1:1100 is not connected & node2:1100 is not connected

3. In the client
p.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, ""); at this point we got
javax.naming.CommunicationException: Receive timed out. Root exception is
java.net.SocketTimeoutException
at java.net.PlainDatagramSocketImpl.receive(Native Method)
at java.net.DatagramSocket.receive(DatagramSocket.java:629)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.discoverServer(NamingContext.java:1093)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.checkRef(NamingContext.java:1223)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:514)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:507)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:350)
at ejb.HelloWorldClient.main(HelloWorldClient.java:31)
Exception: Receive timed out

We Supposed to put localhost:1100 or 1099 it is excuting in that particular node.

inform me what r the chnages required to configure two systems.
if you have any expmple code snipets forward to me.
which is the best documentation for Jboss clustering?.


Thanks &Regards

G.Suresh Babu
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