What is the best practice for using topic in medium to large cluster?
In the topologies document (
http://activemq.apache.org/topologies.html) it says:
"Multicast is great in development though often you might want to disable this feature in production and have well known servers fixed on specific machines. Often socket based communication (using pointcast) is much faster & better for heavy-lifting - particularly on Java - so we tend to recommend to use multicast mostly for discovery and use TCP / SSL for your heavy duty messaging."
In a system where all the clients need to receive all the messages and some of the messages can be really big (a few megabytes and maybe more)
1. shouldn't multicast be used? What about JGroups or JRMS?
2. Wouldn't it choke the network if I send all the messages to all the clients in TCP?
3. Wouldn't it choke the network having well known servers fixed on specific machines?
4. Does anyone have any experience with this use case?
Shimi
