Re: Deployment question: is Jackrabbit process-safe? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Ro...@ipaustralia.gov.au]

the first jackrabbit to start up the repository locks the repository by 
creating a lock file.

Ross



From:   "Esmond Pitt" <es...@bigpond.com>
To:     <us...@jackrabbit.apache.org>
Date:   04/09/2012 10:04 AM
Subject:        Deployment question: is Jackrabbit process-safe?



I have a clustered web-app that uses Jackrabbit. I presently have 
Jackrabbit
in yet another Tomcat and am using RMI to communicate with it. However it
occurs to me that I could just include the JackRabbit API jars in the 
webapp
and call it directly, *provided* multiple copies of the Jackrabbit API 
will
co-operate correctly on the database. Is this the case?
 
EJP

Re: Deployment question: is Jackrabbit process-safe? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Ian Boston <ie...@tfd.co.uk>]

Each JR process locks the repository with a lock file in the local
repository file system, but to make more than one JR process work on
the same repository you must a) use a shared database (eg PorstgreSQL,
MySQL, Oracle etc) and b) you must configure each JR process with a
Cluster Node setting[1] in the repository.xml.

Once you have done this, events generated on one node will propagate
to other nodes via the shared database and ensure the local copies of
the Lucene index are at the same revision. It performs this via a
Jornal table.

One thing to note however. Writing blocks of events to the journal
table will exclusively lock the end of the table meaning that only on
JR process can can have an inprocess transaction active at any one
time. This is OK for the use cases that JR2 and earlier was designed
for, ie 90% read, but can be problematic if you want many of your JR
nodes to write concurrently.

HTH
Ian



1 http://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/Clustering

On 4 September 2012 10:10,  <Ro...@ipaustralia.gov.au> wrote:
> the first jackrabbit to start up the repository locks the repository by
> creating a lock file.
>
> Ross
>
>
>
> From:        "Esmond Pitt" <es...@bigpond.com>
> To:        <us...@jackrabbit.apache.org>
> Date:        04/09/2012 10:04 AM
> Subject:        Deployment question: is Jackrabbit process-safe?
> ________________________________
>
>
>
> I have a clustered web-app that uses Jackrabbit. I presently have Jackrabbit
> in yet another Tomcat and am using RMI to communicate with it. However it
> occurs to me that I could just include the JackRabbit API jars in the webapp
> and call it directly, *provided* multiple copies of the Jackrabbit API will
> co-operate correctly on the database. Is this the case?
>
> EJP
>
>
>
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