Re: [JXTA discuss] Project Proposal: Quorum-Service A basic service for collecting quorums of peers.

John Schock wrote:
> Proposing a new project for the services category:  Quorum-Service
> 
> 
> The Quorum Service provides a mechanism for carrying out basic quorum 
> operations (e.g. voting).
> 
> The goal of the project is to develop a robust service for collecting 
> quorums.
> 
> The current status of the project is "pending approval".  A functional 
> prototype of the Basic Quorum Service and a sample application are 
> available and will be added to the project as soon as it is approved. 
> Substantial work is required, however, to bring the Basic Quorum Service 
> more in line with standard JXTA coding style and practice.
> 
> The project has several needs:
> 1. Code needs to be normalized to meet normal JXTA practice, in 
> particular, the logging system needs to be re-written to use log4j, and 
> coding style needs to be updated.
> 
> 2. The sample application (a distributed filesystem) is currently 
> functional, but needs a fair amount of work to make it "production 
> quality". We need a good sample application to demonstrate the 
> usefulness of the underlying service.
> 
> 3. As a long term goal, we need to encourage the development of other 
> projects that require a consensus protocol, such as distributed 
> filesystems and databases.
> 
> I'm looking forward to working with the community on this project.
+1

This will be a valuable and useful addition to JXTA.

B.

> 
> -John Schock
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