The EJB Multiplexer 2.2 beta version has just been released for testing. It gives you the ablitity to stay online even without a backend implements asyncronous caching of Enterprise java beans results and finally fixed the bug which did not allow you to remove application servers from the cluster pool when they were removed from the configuration file. Try it I think it is wonderful tell me what you think.
After a really really really long time the second version of the ejb multiplexer finally hits sourceforge.
during all the time that passed the following things have been implemented.
1. enhanced configuration, so now you can plug it into pretty much any application server.
2. object caching, cache policy management and eviction and integration of the berkeley db java edition for the management of the vastly scalable cache mechanism inherit to the 2.0 version of the multiplexer.... read more
Today we released version 1.2 of the EJBMultiplexer which can cluster multiple application servers and will re-read its configuration without having to re-start the application or web-container where it is currently running. This basically means that you can add new application servers as they arrive. We are doing this to move the multiplexer into a RAC situation where you can add more (blade type servers to the cluster without having to have downtime during your service).