[news.eclipse.technology.ecf] Re: Group discovery

[Stephan Zehrer <GIWPSZBBNDAF@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

here some comments...

Scott Lewis wrote:

> Maybe we should consider moving up the focus on a discovery and 
> advertise API to the ECF framework...would others like to give their 
> view on this also?
Yes!


> And I should also ask:  are their people reading this list who would be 
> interested in (and able) to work on such an addition to ECF?  We on the 
> existing ECF team do not need to necessarily take this on ourselves...if 
> there are others who would be willing and able to lead something like 
> this it could very easily be spawned as an ECF sub-project.
>
> One way to start might be to implement a new ECF provider, using 
> something like Rendevous, and use such a provider implementation as a 
> way to figure out what would be useful to abstract into a full discovery 
> API addition to ECF.

Maybe JGroups fulfil this requirement. I thought i saw it on your planning.

> Anyway...please everyone let us know (through posting to this list) how 
> important such an API would be to you.

Mmm, i would prever a peer-to-peer network. No configuration, only the
same projekt name and ready. Is see no advantage of a server based 
solution only additional maintenance.

bye

Stephan Zehrer