IDP Cluster going forward (JDK 7)

[Paul Hethmon]

On 5/28/13 9:50 AM, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

>>I would be interested in having access to Paul's Infinispan plugin and/or
>>any other clustering-related plugin sources.
>
>https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Contributions

I wanted to note that I had mixed results with this implementation. In my
data center/network, it worked great. At some customer hosted locations, I
could never get the nodes to talk. You do have quite a bit of
configuration ability with Infinispan, so playing with it is a requirement
to get the best results.

At the end of the day, I punted on it. Took the skeleton code from the
Infinispan version, gutted Infinispan, and plugged in a Hibernate based DB
storage engine. I do intend to publish that one under the Apache license,
just haven't made the time to get it done. I have found this one pretty
robust in usage. It intentionally eats any DB errors since the result of
that to the user is having to login again. So having high availability as
well as session persistence were primary goals. I can take down every node
in a cluster and then bring them back up again preserving all of the
session information.

Paul