JBoss.orgCommunity Documentation

Part I. Introduction and Core Services

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and Quick Start
1.1. Quick Start Guide
1.1.1. Initial Preparation
1.1.2. Launching a JBoss AS Cluster
1.1.3. Web Application Clustering Quick Start
1.1.4. EJB Session Bean Clustering Quick Start
1.1.5. Entity Clustering Quick Start
2. Clustering Concepts
2.1. Cluster Definition
2.2. Service Architectures
2.2.1. Client-side interceptor architecture
2.2.2. External Load Balancer Architecture
2.3. Load-Balancing Policies
2.3.1. Client-side interceptor architecture
2.3.2. External load balancer architecture
3. Clustering Building Blocks
3.1. Group Communication with JGroups
3.1.1. The Channel Factory Service
3.1.2. The JGroups Shared Transport
3.2. Distributed Caching with JBoss Cache
3.2.1. The JBoss AS CacheManager Service
3.3. The HAPartition Service
3.3.1. DistributedReplicantManager Service
3.3.2. DistributedState Service
3.3.3. Custom Use of HAPartition
4. Clustered Deployment Options
4.1. Clustered Singleton Services
4.1.1. HASingleton Deployment Options
4.1.2. Determining the master node
4.2. Farming Deployment