IDP Cluster going forward (JDK 7)

[Cantor, Scott]

On 5/28/13 8:38 PM, "Paul Hethmon" <paul.hethmon at clareitysecurity.com>
wrote:

>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.

Is the database itself replicated? If not, how would you patch the
database host without taking it all down?

(I do think the basic replication features of most of the databases around
suffice for *most* of the use cases here. Not needing bank account level
transaction integrity helps.)

-- Scott