[Red5devs] red5/terracotta status ?

[Walter Tak]

Hey Steven,

thanks for your answer.

I'm however not proficient enough to alter the Red5-sources. I'm happy I'm 
able to use it and write 'applications' for Red5.

I only have normal programming skills (from assembler 68000 to VB, ASP, PHP 
and currently 1 year of Java experience).

I'll continue to develop my 'clustering layer' within the 
MultiThreadedApplicationAdapter , less generic or reusable for other people 
but it's
probably enough for my projects. When terracotta finally is 'done' I'll 
rewrite my code since nobody can tell , obviously , when the integration 
will be done and when we could call Red5-TC stable.

Would you mind if I'd ask you, a few questions about the plan I have ?

I short I want to setup a few Red5 servers and let them connect to eachother 
as soon as they started up. The idea is to have clients connect to any of 
the other Red5 servers and if a client wants to send a 'message' to a client 
that is connected to another Red5 server that both R5 servers will 
communicate with each other, relaying the message (be it a changed 
coordinate, text message or new highscore) to the other server.

Business-logic in the Application would send and receive those 'messages'. 
And that's what I'm trying to develop.

I basically want to setup an RTMPclient-connection on the server to all 
other Red5-servers in the pool. A seperate database will keep track of which 
client is connected to what server ; Red5 will request once from the 
database(cluster) where it can find a player and then cache it for a certain 
time (to avoid excessive calls to the db). All users/clients need to login 
via a script on a website which will store the client-info to the db and 
tell the client to what Red5-server in the pool to connect. The website will 
load-balance the requests by picking on of the available Red5-servers in the 
pool which are flagged "online". This way I can put one server offline for 
maintenance and after a while no client would be using that server anymore, 
without any hard disconnects and I'd be able to restart Red5 on that server 
etc etc.

If you see any problems (or not) I would like to hear your (short) feedback.

Regards,
Walter



> Hi Walter,
> Currently there are no updates for the Terracotta integration yet.
> Your problem can definitively be solved by Terracotta though. Maybe
> you can start with the Terracotta branch in Red5 repo. There is
> already a prototype for SharedObject clustering on Terracotta.
>
> On 9/6/08, Walter Tak <walter at waltertak.com> wrote:
>> Hey devs,
>>
>> what's the status of the Terracotta implementation in Red5 ?
>>
>> I'd like to know if I could have a 'room' spread out over multiple nodes 
>> and
>> being able to cycle through a list of connected clients, which aren't
>> connected to the particular physical machine, but to the cluster.
>>
>> Any ideas if that is possible or will be possible ?
>>
>> I'm not referring to the edge/origin setup since I'd like to use Red5 in 
>> a
>> multiplayer-gaming architecture and don't need video at all in that 
>> project.
>>
>> I'm about to write my own code to be able to deploy say 10 Red5-servers
>> which each will connect to the other 9 in the cluster and relay data on 
>> the
>> fly/when needed.
>>
>> Terracotta definately does what I need for the project (call it a casual
>> mmorpg) so I hope I missed news about TC :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Walter
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Best Regards
> Steven Gong