Project Shoal (software)

Project Shoal
Developer(s)	Oracle Corporation

Stable release	1.1 / Nov 2010
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/

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.

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]

References

External links

Shoal 1.5 Java docs API

GlassFish Server Stack

Core	GlassFish Samples Grizzly Metro Jersey OpenMQ SailFin Shoal HK2

Web Components	JSP Expression Language JSTL JSF JSF Templates WoodStock Phobos WebSockets LRWP in Java

Web Services	JAX-WS WSIT JAXB JAXP Wiseman

Tools	Hudson Japex OpenInstaller IDE plugins WS Monitor License tools

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