Summary

This chapter concludes our journey through the world of clustered applications. Here, we have shown the robust clustering features of JBoss AS applied to some basic examples, and ultimately to the Enterprise application introduced in Chapter 5.

The number of topics related to clustering might be expanded to cover a full book of its own; however, we decided to stress some features. In particular, we have learned about JBoss Cache—a key component of clustering in JBoss AS 5. This topic was further expanded to analyze Hibernate/JBoss Cache integration for second-level caching, which is one of the big improvements in the clustering area of JBoss AS 5.

In the next chapter, we will add the last piece of the puzzle that's missing in our Enterprise ...

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