Overview
The ability to combine different servers to a cluster that hides its internal servers from the clients and offers a virtual platform for an application is important for enterprise applications. It can be used to provide
- high scalability by adding cheap computational resources to the cluster on demand or
- high availability by using a transparent failover that hides faults within single servers.
Usually high scalability limits high availability and vice versa, but it is also possible to get both. The JBoss application server can be configured to support both features.
This post is the first one of a series about clustering with the JBoss AS 7. Here, we focus on the basic concepts behind JBoss AS 7 clustering and show you how to setup a basic clustered environment with a simple Java EE application.
In the series, we concentrate on the JBoss AS 7 respectively the EAP 6, which is the Red Hat-supported version of the JBoss application server. Future posts will be about particular subsystems of the JBoss AS, such as HornetQ or Infinispan.
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