The Poll application is the tutorial example, which is configured to utilize EPS and intended to be deployed together with EPS to a stand-alone or cluster environment. The Poll application supports the following features:
In order to keep the Poll application simple, it mimics a back-end instead of requiring a database. In order to keep the application scoped data synchronized across all nodes within the cluster, JMS messages are used. However, the session and window scoped beans rely on the traditional mechanisms of session replication.
The Poll application can be accessed in a number of ways as listed below.
Finally, the Poll application also supports user defined realms. Different polls can belong to different realms. Use the full featured Poll application to create polls for certain realms. If no realm is specified no realm is used. To access a specific realm use the query string as follows:
The Poll application comes with two Ant build targets as listed below.
In addition, the Poll application supports the following -D options for specific builds: