JGroups Default Protocol Stack TUNNEL Protocol Transport protocol using an external Router for message dissemination and a GossipServer to find initial membership org.jgroups.protocols.TUNNEL Ping Protocol Find the initial membership org.jgroups.protocols.PING Merge Protocol Periodically tries to detect subgroups and emits MERGE events in that case org.jgroups.protocols.MERGE2 Failure Detection Socket Failure detection based on sockets org.jgroups.protocols.FD Verify Suspect Double-checks that a suspected member is really dead org.jgroups.protocols.VERIFY_SUSPECT Reliable mcast message transission Uses a negative acknowledgement protocol for retransmissions org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.NAKACK Unicast Protocol Provides lossless transmission of unicast message (similar to TCP) org.jgroups.protocols.UNICAST Stable protocol Distributed message garbage collection protocol. Deletes messages seen by all group members org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.STABLE Fragmentation Protocol Divides up larger message into smaller pieces org.jgroups.protocols.FRAG PB Cast Group Membership Protocol Maintains the member ship view org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.GMS pbcase State Transfer Transfers the state org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.STATE_TRANSFER