Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for using a distributed object cache to propagate and activate changes to security information across nodes of a cluster. Embodiments of the present invention can be implemented, for example, in a security product that enforces security policies, i.e., access control, etc., on resources such as web content provided by a set of servers of nodes of a computing grid and provide ways to handle data synchronization between the servers or nodes of the grid. This synchronization can be performed using a distributed object cache that provides replicated and distributed object caching services. For example, Oracle Coherence is one such distributed object cache that is built on top of a reliable, highly scalable peer-to-peer clustering protocol. However, embodiment of the present invention are not limited to use with Coherence but rather are equally applicable to other distributed object caches.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for using a distributed object cache to propagate and activate changes to security information across nodes of a cluster. Embodiments of the present invention can be implemented, for example, in a security product that enforces security policies, i.e., access control, etc., on resources such as web content provided by a set of servers of nodes of a computing grid and provide ways to handle data synchronization between the servers or nodes of the grid. This synchronization can be performed using a distributed object cache that provides replicated and distributed object caching services. For example, Oracle Coherence is one such distributed object cache that is built on top of a reliable, highly scalable peer-to-peer clustering protocol. However, embodiment of the present invention are not limited to use with Coherence but rather are equally applicable to other distributed object caches.