Farming and Plugins

[David Jencks <da...@yahoo.com>]

A while back Gianny wrote some farming support to help with clusters.   
IIUC it works like this:

- farm members are tracked with gbeans deployed on a master server
- to distribute an app to the farm you deploy it onto the master server.

This is great as far as it goes but I'd like these features:

- easy to dynamically add and remove farm members
- works with plugins rather than apps
- plugins do not need to be installed on master server
- lists of plugins and members persisted externally (such as in a  
database)

I expect to start looking into this more closely in a day or two.  I  
guess I'll play around with code in the sandbox or in a out-of-server  
plugin.  Hopefully I'll be able to use most of the stuff Gianny has  
already set up.

Comments or suggestions?

thanks
david jencks