Shoal
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Things known as shoal include:
- shoal — a sandbank or bar creating a shallow.
- shoal — a swarm of fish, also known as a school
- The Shoals is a region in northwest Alabama on the banks of the Tennessee River encompassing the cities of Florence, Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia, and Sheffield.
- Project Shoal - a Java based Generic Clustering Framework that can be plugged into any product to achieve clustering and related distributed systems functionalities. Shoal provides the basis for building fault tolerance, reliability and availability to consuming applications through simple, easy-to-use client APIs, and allows for group communication provider technologies such as JXTA, JGroups, etc. to be integrated underneath through a GroupCommunicationProvider SPI implementation. Applications using Shoal simply use their logical identities to communicate with group members and be agnostic to network addressing semantics.
