Apache ZooKeeper Essentials

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "The org.apache.zookeeper is composed of the interface definition for ZooKeeper watches and various callback handlers of ZooKeeper."

A block of code is set as follows:

public class HelloZooKeeper {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    String hostPort = "localhost:2181";
    String zpath = "/";
    List <String> zooChildren = new ArrayList <String> ();
    ZooKeeper zk = new ZooKeeper(hostPort, 2000, null);
  }
}

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