Project Shoal is a java based scalable dynamic clustering framework that provides infrastructure to build fault tolerance, reliability and availability and can be plugged into the GlassFish Application Server.
| Developer(s) | Oracle Corporation |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.1
/ Nov 2010 |
| Repository | |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | Java 6 or Higher |
| Type | Clustering Framework |
| License | CDDL version 1.0 and GPL v2 license |
| Website | http://shoal.java.net/ |
The framework can be plugged into any product needing clustering and related distributed systems capabilities without tightly binding to a specific communications infrastructure. The framework can be plugged in as an in-process component. The framework will have two broad categories of public APIs, namely, a Client API, and a Group Communication Provider API. [1]
Some of the Shoal Capabilities are
- Shoal Group Event Notifications
- Distributed State Cache
- Shoal Automated Delegated Recovery Initiation
- Shoal Messaging[2]