Further Lateral Cache Questions

[Paul Snively <ps...@IFILM.com>]

Joe, Gavin, James, and others,

First, thanks for your feedback regarding scaling the Lateral TCP Auxiliary
cache. The comments have been most informative. So far, it would seem that
the LTCP is somewhat naïve and immature. I see that there are other
options--in particular, that someone has attempt to integrate JavaGroups as
a lateral caching mechanism. Is there any documentation regarding how to use
this integration? Has anyone had direct experience with it? What issues does
it present that the TCP cache doesn't, and vice-versa?

Many thanks,
Paul

Re: Further Lateral Cache Questions

[James Taylor <ja...@jamestaylor.org>]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:34, Paul Snively wrote:
> Joe, Gavin, James, and others,
> 
> First, thanks for your feedback regarding scaling the Lateral TCP Auxiliary
> cache. The comments have been most informative. So far, it would seem that
> the LTCP is somewhat naïve and immature. I see that there are other
> options--in particular, that someone has attempt to integrate JavaGroups as
> a lateral caching mechanism.

Yeah, that's me.

>  Is there any documentation regarding how to use
> this integration? Has anyone had direct experience with it? What issues does
> it present that the TCP cache doesn't, and vice-versa?

All the documentation is inline, I tried to make the Javadoc as complete
as possible.

The main thing is that it is MUCH simpler than the TCP lateral. By
leveraging javagroups you get a lot of flexibility with fairly little
code. Each cache just joins a new group (based on the cachename) using
the properties string provided in the config.