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

+1 Definetly looking forward to this!!

On 8/16/05, Bernard Traversat <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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