Virtual Registry
The VR requires a mechanism to allow the registry components within the Mediator to locate and query the Local Stores, which are distributed over the wide-area, and form a virtualised registry. The VR has a number of idealised requirements:
- To be scale to potentially Internet proportions,
- To store sufficient information for Tycho clients, plus be extensible. Clients can query this information via the VR to discover other end-points, which provide the information that they are interested in.
- To be secure, and prevent unauthorised access to the data,
- To require minimal configuration,
- To avoid a single point of failure,
- To allow efficient query routing between registry instances.
The Virtual Registry is the current focus of our research.
