Getting Started with WADI

To familiarise yourself with WADI, we provide a number of simple demonstrations that you may walk through.

If you are pressed for time, forget about the installation step and running the s/w. Just go straight to the demos. You should be able to glean quite a lot from just reading through them.

WADI-2.0M1 is a technology preview release. We are not yet production ready. In order to get best results from the software, certain temporary guidelines are suggested.

• leave a reasonable pause (e.g. 5 seconds) between starting and stopping nodes.
• do not 'kill -9' a node.

These guidelines are to help to you avoid stumbling on issues in the current release of which we are aware. They will be relaxed as soon as these issues are resolved.

The demonstration web application relies on the tying of the web session to the browser via a cookie. Please ensure that you have cookies enabled in your browser.

NOTE: Some browsers (Konqueror), include the server port in a cookie's domain. This makes them unsuitable for this demonstration, since you will be making requests through more than one port on the same host, whilst requiring that the same cookie is used for all requests. This issue does not affect the load-balancing demonstration, since all requests are made through a single port - the one on which the load-balancer is listening.

1. installation guide (REHASH)
2. walk through some demos:
   • partitioning demo
   • location demo
   • evacuation demo
   • paging demo
   • load balancing demo (mod_jk2) (REHASH)
   • JMX monitoring demo (mc4j) (REHASH)