Clustering and Shared Data in Vert.x

Question

I\'m developing in Vert.x (based on Netty and Hazelcast), and I\'m trying to share data between two server instances (eache of those instances in different machines, on the same

Answer 1

Afaik you can't share data between different instances of vert.x -- from the documentation

"[...] Such a use case is better solved by providing a shared map structure that can be accessed directly by different verticle instances in the same vert.x instance."

Since "vert.x instance" means "jvm instance" you can't use sharedmap/set between different jvm. You can use the event bus for this.

Edit before others people downvotes: my answer is from 2012, 6 years ago, when this was not possible. Now it is possible as others people already said