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<ul class="toc-indentation"><li><a shape="rect" href="#JAXRSFailover-Failover">Failover</a>
<ul class="toc-indentation"><li><a shape="rect" href="#JAXRSFailover-Spring">Spring</a></li><li><a shape="rect" href="#JAXRSFailover-Code">Code</a></li></ul>
</li><li><a shape="rect" href="#JAXRSFailover-CircuitBreakersFailover">Circuit Breakers Failover</a>
<ul class="toc-indentation"><li><a shape="rect" href="#JAXRSFailover-Spring.1">Spring</a></li><li><a shape="rect" href="#JAXRSFailover-Code.1">Code</a></li></ul>
</li><li><a shape="rect" href="#JAXRSFailover-LoadDistribution">Load Distribution</a></li></ul>
</div><p>Starting from CXF 2.4.1, CXF JAX-RS clients can be configured for them to become failover-capable.<br clear="none"> Core CXF Failover and Load Distribution features are supported.</p><h1 id="JAXRSFailover-Failover">Failover</h1><p>Proxies and WebClients can be configured to failover to alternate addresses in case of connection-related failures.<br clear="none"> Sequential and Random strategies are supported and implementers can build more sophisticated failover features by retrieving<br clear="none"> alternate addresses from locators and other intermediaries.</p><h2 id="JAXRSFailover-Spring">Spring</h2><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
<pre class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default">&lt;beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:jaxrs="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs"
xmlns:clustering="http://cxf.apache.org/clustering"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxrs.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd"&gt;
&lt;bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"/&gt;
&lt;util:list id="addressList"&gt;
&lt;value&gt;http://localhost:${testutil.ports.Server.1}/rest&lt;/value&gt;
&lt;value&gt;http://localhost:${testutil.ports.Server.2}/rest&lt;/value&gt;
&lt;value&gt;http://localhost:${testutil.ports.Server.3}/rest&lt;/value&gt;
&lt;/util:list&gt;
&lt;bean id="SequentialAddresses" class="org.apache.cxf.clustering.SequentialStrategy"&gt;
&lt;property name="alternateAddresses"&gt;
&lt;ref bean="addressList"/&gt;
&lt;/property&gt;
&lt;/bean&gt;
&lt;bean id="RandomAddresses" class="org.apache.cxf.clustering.RandomStrategy"&gt;
&lt;property name="alternateAddresses"&gt;
&lt;ref bean="addressList"/&gt;
&lt;/property&gt;
&lt;/bean&gt;
&lt;jaxrs:client id="failoverSequential" address="http://localhost:8080/initialAddress"&gt;
&lt;jaxrs:features&gt;
&lt;clustering:failover&gt;
&lt;clustering:strategy&gt;
&lt;ref bean="SequentialAddresses"/&gt;
&lt;/clustering:strategy&gt;
&lt;/clustering:failover&gt;
&lt;/jaxrs:features&gt;
&lt;/jaxrs:client&gt;
&lt;jaxrs:client id="failoverRandom" address="http://localhost:8080/initialAddress"&gt;
&lt;jaxrs:features&gt;
&lt;clustering:failover&gt;
&lt;clustering:strategy&gt;
&lt;ref bean="RandomAddresses"/&gt;
&lt;/clustering:strategy&gt;
&lt;/clustering:failover&gt;
&lt;/jaxrs:features&gt;
&lt;/jaxrs:client&gt;
&lt;bean id="myWebClient" class="org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.JAXRSClientFactoryBean"
factory-method="createWebClient"&gt;
&lt;property name="address" value="http://some.base.url.that.responds/" /&gt;
&lt;property name="features"&gt;
&lt;ref bean="failover1"/&gt;
&lt;/property&gt;
&lt;/bean&gt;
&lt;/beans&gt;
</pre>
</div></div><h2 id="JAXRSFailover-Code">Code</h2><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
<pre class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default">org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.features.clustering.FailoverFeature feature =
new org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.features.clustering.FailoverFeature();
List&lt;String&gt; alternateAddresses = new ArrayList&lt;String&gt;();
// addresses are alternate addresses provided at start-up
for (String s : address) {
alternateAddresses.add(s);
}
SequentialStrategy strategy = new SequentialStrategy();
strategy.setAlternateAddresses(alternateAddresses);
feature.setStrategy(strategy);
JAXRSClientFactoryBean bean = new JAXRSClientFactoryBean();
bean.setAddress("http://localhost:8080/inactive-replica");
List&lt;Feature&gt; features = new ArrayList&lt;Feature&gt;();
features.add(feature);
bean.setFeatures(features);
// create proxy:
bean.create(BookStore.class);
// create web client
bean.createWebClient();
</pre>
</div></div><h1 id="JAXRSFailover-CircuitBreakersFailover">Circuit Breakers Failover</h1><p>The recent addition to CXF failover features is the implementation based on circuit breakers, more precisely Apache Zest (<a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="https://zest.apache.org/">https://zest.apache.org/</a>) library. It is available starting from CXF 3.2.0.</p><p>The configuration is very similar to the regular failover strategy, the only difference is usage of<strong> clustering:circuit-breaker-failover</strong> element.</p><h2 id="JAXRSFailover-Spring.1">Spring</h2><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
<pre class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default">&lt;beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:jaxrs="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs"
xmlns:clustering="http://cxf.apache.org/clustering"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxrs.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd"&gt;
&lt;bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"/&gt;
&lt;util:list id="addressList"&gt;
&lt;value&gt;http://localhost:${testutil.ports.Server.1}/rest&lt;/value&gt;
&lt;value&gt;http://localhost:${testutil.ports.Server.2}/rest&lt;/value&gt;
&lt;value&gt;http://localhost:${testutil.ports.Server.3}/rest&lt;/value&gt;
&lt;/util:list&gt;
&lt;bean id="SequentialAddresses" class="org.apache.cxf.clustering.SequentialStrategy"&gt;
&lt;property name="alternateAddresses"&gt;
&lt;ref bean="addressList"/&gt;
&lt;/property&gt;
&lt;/bean&gt;
&lt;bean id="RandomAddresses" class="org.apache.cxf.clustering.RandomStrategy"&gt;
&lt;property name="alternateAddresses"&gt;
&lt;ref bean="addressList"/&gt;
&lt;/property&gt;
&lt;/bean&gt;
&lt;jaxrs:client id="failoverSequential" address="http://localhost:8080/initialAddress"&gt;
&lt;jaxrs:features&gt;
&lt;clustering:circuit-breaker-failover threshold="1" timeout="60000"&gt;
&lt;clustering:strategy&gt;
&lt;ref bean="SequentialAddresses"/&gt;
&lt;/clustering:strategy&gt;
&lt;/clustering:circuit-breaker-failover&gt;
&lt;/jaxrs:features&gt;
&lt;/jaxrs:client&gt;
&lt;jaxrs:client id="failoverRandom" address="http://localhost:8080/initialAddress"&gt;
&lt;jaxrs:features&gt;
&lt;clustering:circuit-breaker-failover threshold="1" timeout="60000"&gt;
&lt;clustering:strategy&gt;
&lt;ref bean="RandomAddresses"/&gt;
&lt;/clustering:strategy&gt;
&lt;/clustering:circuit-breaker-failover&gt;
&lt;/jaxrs:features&gt;
&lt;/jaxrs:client&gt;
&lt;bean id="myWebClient" class="org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.JAXRSClientFactoryBean"
factory-method="createWebClient"&gt;
&lt;property name="address" value="http://some.base.url.that.responds/" /&gt;
&lt;property name="features"&gt;
&lt;ref bean="failover1"/&gt;
&lt;/property&gt;
&lt;/bean&gt;
&lt;/beans&gt;</pre>
</div></div><p>Circuit breakers have recommended themselves as a proven strategy to handle and monitor the failures related to external service calls, giving the external systems a time to recover by preventing endless retries or time-outing. For that reason, two configuration parameters could be tuned:</p><ul><li><strong>threshold</strong>: the error threshold to open the circuit breaker</li><li><strong>timeout</strong>: the timeout to wait before trying the next invocation</li></ul><h2 id="JAXRSFailover-Code.1">Code</h2><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
<pre class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default">org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.features.clustering.CircuitBreakerFailoverFeature feature =
new org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.features.clustering.CircuitBreakerFailoverFeature(1, 60000);
List&lt;String&gt; alternateAddresses = new ArrayList&lt;String&gt;();
// addresses are alternate addresses provided at start-up
for (String s : address) {
alternateAddresses.add(s);
}
SequentialStrategy strategy = new SequentialStrategy();
strategy.setAlternateAddresses(alternateAddresses);
feature.setStrategy(strategy);
JAXRSClientFactoryBean bean = new JAXRSClientFactoryBean();
bean.setAddress("http://localhost:8080/inactive-replica");
List&lt;Feature&gt; features = new ArrayList&lt;Feature&gt;();
features.add(feature);
bean.setFeatures(features);
// create proxy:
bean.create(BookStore.class);
// create web client
bean.createWebClient();</pre>
</div></div><h1 id="JAXRSFailover-LoadDistribution">Load Distribution</h1><p>CXF Load Distribution feature is a failover feature which can iterate where alternate addresses not only in case of failures but also after a successful invocation has been done.</p><p>Example:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
<pre class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default">&lt;beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:jaxrs="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs"
xmlns:clustering="http://cxf.apache.org/clustering"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxrs.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd"&gt;
&lt;bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"/&gt;
&lt;util:list id="addressList"&gt;
&lt;value&gt;http://localhost:${testutil.ports.Server.1}/rest&lt;/value&gt;
&lt;value&gt;http://localhost:${testutil.ports.Server.2}/rest&lt;/value&gt;
&lt;value&gt;http://localhost:${testutil.ports.Server.3}/rest&lt;/value&gt;
&lt;/util:list&gt;
&lt;bean id="SequentialAddresses" class="org.apache.cxf.clustering.SequentialStrategy"&gt;
&lt;property name="alternateAddresses"&gt;
&lt;ref bean="addressList"/&gt;
&lt;/property&gt;
&lt;/bean&gt;
&lt;jaxrs:client id="loadDistributorClient" address="http://localhost:8080/initialAddress"&gt;
&lt;jaxrs:features&gt;
&lt;clustering:loadDistributor&gt;
&lt;clustering:strategy&gt;
&lt;ref bean="RandomAddresses"/&gt;
&lt;/clustering:strategy&gt;
&lt;/clustering:loadDistributor&gt;
&lt;/jaxrs:features&gt;
&lt;/jaxrs:client&gt;
</pre>
</div></div><p>the selector can be set from code like this:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
<pre class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default">org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.features.clustering.FailoverFeature feature =
new org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.features.clustering.FailoverFeature();
feature.setSelector(new org.apache.cxf.clustering.LoadDistributorTargetSelector());
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