Re: [xmlblaster] Deliver to one of N subscribers?

[David Kerry <xml at navahonetworks.com>]

Ahh... the description sounds perfect for my needs.  In all my searching
I missed that one somehow.

I'll give it a go here and see how it works out.

Thanks!
-- 
David Kerry

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 07:47:42PM +0200, Michele Laghi wrote:
> Hi David,
> what you describe should be handled by the msgDistributorPlugin in 
> org.xmlBlaster.engine.distributor.* and described in the requirement 
> http://www.xmlBlaster.org/xmlBlaster/doc/requirements/msgDistributor.plugin.html
> 
> The requirement is still open since extensive testing has not been done 
> yet. There is however already some simple testing in 
> xmlBlaster/testsuite/src/java/org/xmlBlaster/test/distributor which of 
> course could be extended.
> 
> Have you tried this plugin already ?
> 
> Regards
> Michele
> 
> 
> David Kerry wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I've seen this tossed around here before, but I haven't yet seen a
> >straightforward solution to this problem.
> >
> >We have a need for a published message to be delivered to a group
> >of identical clients, with the exception that each message should
> >only be delivered to one client in the group at a time.
> >
> >I suspect this would be a new plugin type to make this work properly
> >as the exsting ones don't quite seem to work at the level we need.
> >
> >The goal here is to have multiple clients all logged in for load
> >sharing and/or failover purposes.  To make this work, the message
> >can only be delivered to one of the clients at a time (otherwise
> >we'll end up with duplicated work by all of the clients).
> >
> >I have no simple way to pre-determine which client the message
> >should be delivered to since that depends on which clients are
> >connected at the time.
> >
> >Also, if the message is unsuccessfully delivered to one client, it
> >should be possible to retry delivery to the next client, and so on,
> >and if it can't be delivered at all, wait until a client connects
> >that does satisfy the criteria and try again...
> >
> >I guess you could call this a clustered client problem.
> >
> >Anyone have any suggestions on how to make this work?
> >
> >Thanks
> 
> 
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