Likewise, if you have a front-end intensive application, it
is easier to scale the web servers with the session info stored
in the back-end.  This would reduce the cost of load balancing
in the front end also, since a dumb round-robin load distributor
could work instead of a sophisticated session-aware load balancer.

IMHO, this is the more likely scenario.  Of the many (two !)
analyses of front/back statistics I've seen, they suggested a
ratio of 8:1 web server requests to each database request.  But
as Andy says, no answer will fit all.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Grove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 11:49 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: HTTPSession+ Stateless Session Beans OR Stateful Session
> Beans
>
>
> Obviously this is not a 'one answer fits all' question and it
> very much
> depends
> on the physical deployment you are aiming for and the
> charistics of the app.
>
> One advantage of using the HTTP session to look after state and using
> stateless
> session beans is that it makes it easier to have a cluster of
> EJB servers at
> the
> back end if you want to be able to scale up. I have tended to use this
> approach
> when building production systems.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> ---
> Andy Grove
> Chief Technology Officer
> Orbware Ltd.
>
> ** OrCAS EJB Server now available from http://www.orbware.com **
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Samir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 22 September 2000 17:25
> Subject: HTTPSession+ Stateless Session Beans OR Stateful
> Session Beans
>
>
> >Hi Guys,
> >
> >Whats the criteria of Deciding whether to use HTTPSession
> with Stateless
> >Session beans or Stateful Session Beans? One reason for
> using Stateful
> >Session bean might be to accomodate multiple channels like
> Web,WAP phone
> >etc. Any Other Reasons for using it??? In other words my
> question is why
> >would i use a Stateful Session bean if I know that I am accessing my
> >application only thru the web-- when I know that i can track
> session using
> >HTTp and take the advantage of instance pooling in Stateless Session
> beans??
> >
> >Thanks + Regds
> >
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