Re: [JBoss-user] clustering question

[Andrew S. <an...@bl...>]

I know this is OT, but the thread reminded me of this...
Has anyone looked at using something like "JSR-107: JCACHE - Java 
Temporary Caching API" to help in keeping cached entity beans in a 
cluster synchronized instead of relying solely on the database?

David Jencks wrote:

>I don't see a response yet from the experts...so I will jump in.
>
>Don't use commit option A with clustering, and do use whatever your
>database supplies for select for update.  The clustering implemention
>relies on database locking to synchronize the different copies of entities.
>
>I actually don't know of any other way to get consistency, but would be
>interested in finding out if there are other ways.
>
>david jencks
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