public abstract class Paxos
extends java.lang.Object
(Not The) Paxos
Used to define Cloud membership. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_%28computer_science%29
Detects and builds a "cloud" - a cooperating group of nodes, with mutual
knowledge of each other. Basically tracks all the nodes that *this* node
has ever heard of, and when *all* of the other nodes have all heard of each
other, declares the situation as "commonKnowledge", and a Cloud. This
algorithm differs from Paxos in a number of obvious ways:
- it is not robust against failing nodes
- it requires true global consensus (a Quorum of All)
- it is vastly simpler than Paxos