I'm pleased to announce the 1.0 release of ActiveCluster, the open source cluster management & control framework.

This release completes the core API and reference implementation which includes the following features

• viewing the current nodes in the cluster and their state
• listening to nodes arrive, update their state, shut down or fail
• communicate with the cluster as a whole or with any specific node in the cluster
• elect a leader of the cluster to make decisions on behalf of the cluster

Future versions will include more complex higher level protocols like buddy-group arrangement protocols and HA features.

To download the binary or source versions of this release, please view the download page

Its taken a little while to get there but now we've a fully working reference implementation of ActiveCluster that will sit on top of any JMS provider.

In our tests we've sat ActiveCluster on top of ActiveMQ. There are a couple of Examples available which demonstrate ActiveCluster in action, such as a ChatDemo.