[zeromq-dev] Implementing failover in client side

[Iñaki Baz Castillo]

2010/10/13 Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com>:
>> Hi, as I can read in that page the element doing the failover is a
>> queue rather than the client itself, am I right? Does it mean that a
>> single client (REQ socket) couldn't not use this failover feature by
>> itself?
>
> Sure it could, it just needs to implement the same worker management
> logic as the queue does.  It's not very complex but in a realistic
> case needs configuration, logging, etc. and becomes enough work to
> stick into a separate layer.  In my C examples I'd put this into a ZFL
> class, or a queue.  In another language, other abstractions would
> work.

Sounds ok :)

Regards.


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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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