org.jboss.ha.client.loadbalance
Interface LoadBalancePolicy

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

AopLoadBalancePolicy

All Known Implementing Classes:

FirstAvailable, FirstAvailable, FirstAvailableIdenticalAllProxies, FirstAvailableIdenticalAllProxies, RandomRobin, RoundRobin

public interface LoadBalancePolicy
extends Serializable

Base interface for load-balancing policies. It is possible to implement many different load-balancing policies by implementing this simple interface and using it in the different clustered services (home interface of SLSB for example)

Version:

$Revision: 57642 $

Author:

Bill Burke., Sacha Labourey., brian.stansberry@jboss.com

Field Summary

static long

serialVersionUID The serialVersionUID

Method Summary

Object

chooseTarget(FamilyClusterInfo clusterFamily) Gets the target for the next remote call.

Field Detail

serialVersionUID

static final long serialVersionUID

The serialVersionUID

Since:

1.3.4.2

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

chooseTarget

Object chooseTarget(FamilyClusterInfo clusterFamily)

Gets the target for the next remote call.

Called when the client wishes to know on which node the next invocation must be performed.

Parameters:

clusterFamily - object encapsulating a list of potential target nodes

Returns:

The selected target for the next invocation