Clustered HornetQ without multicast

[mylos78]

Hi all !

I'm planning to move a JMS based application on a cluster of HornetQ nodes which are embedded in the newer WildFly application server. I can see that in the connection configuration there's a broadcast and discovery section:

  <broadcast-groups>

                    <broadcast-group name="bg-group1">

                        <socket-binding>messaging-group</socket-binding>

                        <broadcast-period>5000</broadcast-period>

                        <connector-ref>

                            netty

                        </connector-ref>

                    </broadcast-group>

                </broadcast-groups>

                <discovery-groups>

                    <discovery-group name="dg-group1">

                        <socket-binding>messaging-group</socket-binding>

                        <refresh-timeout>10000</refresh-timeout>

                    </discovery-group>

                </discovery-groups>

Unfortunately our development environment does not support multicast (Windows 7 based)- will clustering work ? is there some workaround if not ?

Thanks

Mylos

[ataylor]

use static connectors instead, the user manual has all the info you need or look at the static cluster example

[mylos78]

Thanks for your reply- do I understand correctly from the docs that in such a scenario (static cluster) HA is not supported ?

Thanks

Mylos

[jbertram]

Static clustering and dynamic (i.e. multicast) clustering both support all the same scenarios.

[jbertram]

That said, clustering and HA are independent in HornetQ.  Clustering is for load-balancing.  HA is for failure mitigation (and is configured via live/backup pairs).

[mylos78]

Thanks for your replies- actually I have one more question about cluster lookup but I'll start a new thread for that

Regards

Mylos