Proposal: New Agent Communications

John Mazzitelli mazz at redhat.com
Wed Nov 3 16:10:20 UTC 2010


this stuff looks interested and that uni-directional comm is something 
people have been asking for forever.

I'm a +1 on creating a branch and committing this work to it so we can 
peer review its development

On 11/03/2010 11:51 AM, Greg Hinkle wrote:
> I've written up a proposal for a new Agent Communications System that
> I'd like to contribute for RHQ in the future. I'll start with not
> including the whole proposal in mail, but perhaps we can copy-paste any
> pieces you guys would like to discuss or comment on.
>
>
> Executive Summary:
>
> This new communication system, based on HornetQ, offers reduced
> configuration and deployment complexity, improved security and
> performance and a simpler, easier to maintain design. The biggest new
> features are unidirectional socket listening (server no longer needs to
> be able to open socket to agent), performance/scalability via nio/aio
> and simple to use SSL based authorization and encryption.
>
>
> http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Design+-+Agent-Server+Communications+3
>
> It obviously isn't a small change to sneak in at the end of a release,
> but I do think it can be packaged into a fairly localized set of changes
> that can be managed in a branch until it's ready. Feedback welcome.
>
> -Greg
>
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