Sun(TM) Cluster 3 Programming: Integrating Applications into the...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 408 pages
• Published by: Prentice Hall PTR November 22, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0130479756
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0130479754
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.3 pounds

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Customize Applications for Maximum Availability in Sun Cluster Environments

The Sun Cluster 3 environment offers developers and administrators a powerful API for creating custom "data services" that maximize the availability and enhance the horizontal scalability of many enterprise applications. Now, here's an authoritative tutorial and reference to building custom data services with the Sun Cluster 3 API. In Sun Cluster 3 Programming, three leading Sun Cluster experts systematically review the tools, programming interfaces, and features that make custom data services possible. Then, through a series of step-by-step examples, they demonstrate how to ensure that applications can recover smoothly from even the most serious failures.

This book

• Reviews every facet of "availability" and what it takes to make software available

• Provides extensive easy-to-understand code examples, all available for download

• Covers all areas of agent development, from quick basics to advanced techniques

• Covers all the APIs provided with Sun Cluster 3

• Walks step-by-step through making existing applications available, scalable, and cluster-aware

Until now, this information has been available only in a three-day Sun training course. Now, with the help of Sun's in-house experts, you have all the information you need to build Sun Cluster 3 custom applications that deliver unprecedented levels of application availability.



About The Author


Joseph Bianco, Ph.D., principal engineer at Sun Microsystems' Service Division, has spent more than nine years consulting on and implementing all versions of Sun Cluster software. He coauthored Sun Cluster Environment: Sun Cluster 2.2 (Prentice Hall, 2001).

Peter Lees, senior solutions architect for Sun Microsystems' Global Client Services, works with customers and Sun systems engineers throughout the Asia-Pacific region. He has written several white papers on Sun Cluster technology, and frequently consults on the Sun Cluster API.

Kevin Rabito, a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems Service Division, has been implementing and supporting Sun Cluster products since Sun entered the market.



Reader Reviews
This is a quick jaunt through the Sun clustering APIs, primarily in C. You will get a good introduction from it, but there will be a lot more to learn. There is a practical example with MySQL. Overall the tone is pretty dry and terse. The introduction should have been a lot longer. More information on hardware configurations, and some reference to Java would have been nice as well.