JOnAS, an open source Java application server, is being updated with clustering enhancements, said a developer working on the project at Groupe Bull in France.
A release candidate of JOnAS 4.8.1 was made available this week as a prelude to a general release planned for late-September or October. "The main functionality [improvement] is cluster monitoring," for functions such as starting and stopping of servers, said Florent Benoit, a lead developer at Groupe Bull.
Also planned in the new release are Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) replication framework enhancments, in which the SFSB (Stateful Session Beans) replication framework ensures transaction and global consistency in clusters. A remote deploy/start improvement allows for deploying of the same application on several nodes.
JOnAS is available via a Lesser GPL open source license. The project is hosted on ObjectWeb.
Posted by Paul Krill on August 11, 2006 09:01 AM
