Distributed Lock Libraries

[Fernando Padilla <fe...@alum.mit.edu>]

When I first discovered Zookeeper last year, it was all about the 
low-level file-system semantics, and letting the client use it with 
several knowns recipes (design patterns, algorithms, etc).

And I remember it mentioning that some people within Yahoo were working 
on a nice client-side library to expose those recipes in a cleaner more 
reliable way.

I was wondering, has any been able to create a client-side library that 
exposes Zookeeper as a simple java.util.concurrent.locks interfaces? 
(Lock, ReadWriteLock)??

Re: Distributed Lock Libraries

[Mahadev Konar <ma...@yahoo-inc.com>]

Hi Fernando,
 Our 3.2 release is focussed more on having such recipes in a clieaner and
reliable way.
 One of the jiras that focusses on this is
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-78.

We hope to add more of such recipes in 3.2.

Thanks
mahadev


On 3/6/09 2:30 PM, "Fernando Padilla" <fe...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> When I first discovered Zookeeper last year, it was all about the
> low-level file-system semantics, and letting the client use it with
> several knowns recipes (design patterns, algorithms, etc).
> 
> And I remember it mentioning that some people within Yahoo were working
> on a nice client-side library to expose those recipes in a cleaner more
> reliable way.
> 
> I was wondering, has any been able to create a client-side library that
> exposes Zookeeper as a simple java.util.concurrent.locks interfaces?
> (Lock, ReadWriteLock)??