Just a general theory question ... From what I understand Cassandra uses a generic gossip protocol for node discovery (custom), will the Solr-Cloud have something similar?
I was looking through both projects and it seems like this "protocol" type can be ripped from org.apache.cassandra.gms package ... what I can't figure out is why they did not end up w/ something like JGroups. Beyond something akin to Bonjour and Apache River is there something preferable for this stuff? (To be clear this is the zero configuration of slave nodes). - Jon
