Introducing JBoss AS cluster
JBoss AS ships with built-in clustering support, located in the "all" server configuration. To be part of a cluster, JBoss instance nodes have to be grouped together in partitions. The members of a cluster can be located either on the same machine or on different machines. What actually required is that they are assigned different IP address for each node.
In the following figure, you can see (on the left side) a cluster composed of two nodes running in the same partition (DefaultPartition), each one with its assigned IP address.
You can also have multiple cluster partitions running on the same network. In order to differentiate ...
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