Background

The Spring HttpInvokerProxyFactoryBean creates a proxy and routes every method call on this proxy to a single webserver (There are also similar beans for JMS, RMI and Burlap).

This enables you to forward method calls transparent to a server.

One drawback of this remoting solutions is the lack of failover or load balancing. This is essential when developing server to server communications, or similar critical communications.

Idea

A simple framework which

• provides a replacement for the Spring HttpInvokerProxyFactoryBean
• is protocol transparent (support for JMS, RMI and Burlap as well)
• provides fallback strategies
• enables load balancing across multiple servers
• uses existing spring functionality

Goal

More reliable, robust applications.

Status

The project is still under heavy development. There is currently a working solution, which lacks some features and might not be stable under all conditions.

Getting Started

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