JBoss AS7 - Infinispan

[ranga033]

Hi,

Currently I understand that Infinispan is configured within AS7+ through domain.xml or standalone.xml. Hence, it is embedded within the server instance. I am looking for a way to seperate the cache part from within the server instance so that the server and the cache part are on different nodes.

For example, I have setup a cluster and I am looking to run the Infinispan cache in distributed mode seperately.  Hence the web,ejb, hibernate cache resides completely outside the server instance JVM.

Any heads-up on how this can be configured ?

-rang01

[ranga033]

Just adding for more clarity...

Basically I am looking for having Infinispan as a remote server (in distributed mode)  which is accessed by AS7+ for cache containers for web,ejb, hiberate etc. Is this possible ?

[mackerman]

Yes, it is possible.  In fact, we are doing this by using the usual standalone infinispan configuration files.  Those files are then included and used within the webapp just as they would be in a standalone app.  We have removed all infinispan configuration from domain.xml.  The reason for us doing this was that we were unable to find a way to configure infinispan as we wished in domain.xml, for example in order to use using a gossip router.

[ranga033]

Thank you Mitchell for the reply. If I understand right, it means you would have Infinispan configured for every application(ejb, war etc) which is deployed in the app server - AS7+?

[mackerman]

Correct.  we only have one application installed in the cluster, so that is not an issue for us.

[galder.zamarreno]

You can start one of the Infinispan servers separately and access it with the corresponding client from AS7.

[ranga033]

Ok, so for clients (apps deployed in AS7) I can use the Infinispan servers which are started seperately. I believe AS7 internally uses Infinispan for the cluster infrastructure as well. How do I make this work with seperate Infinispan servers , i.e how do I make sure when the server starts up, it looks for Infinispan servers which I have started seperately. I could not find any configurations in domain.xml/standalone.xml of AS7 which support this.

[galder.zamarreno]

The Infinispan remote client libraries are not part of AS7, so you need to bring them in yourself (into your app). More info on the client here.