We are in the mist of development of a new product that will use JBoss as the EJB server. Now I know that a load balanced solution is not available through the container. Our plan, at the moment, is to have a balancer in front of the web tier and another in front of the EJB tier; we were not *currently* planning to run them on the same servers (Tomcat/JBoss). I am setting up the environment now and was looking for any recommendations before I go too far down the road.
Has anyone used hardware/software balancers to sit in front of multiple EJB servers? What did you do if the balancer crashes?(I'm pretty sure I'm going to add code on the web tier for other naming server(s) when the failover balancer kicks in).
Are there any benchmarks that show the cost/performance of a combined server (e.g. Tomcat/JBoss) vs. distributed across web and application server tiers?
On a related topic:
Is there a design/plan for the new naming service to permit a consolidated view of all containers so that one can identify all of the places that a particular bean is executing?
Will that data be shared in a master-slave or peer-peer configuration? What about a backing data store (ldap, db, ?)
If there is a plan I'd be happy to take a look at the jnp stuff and see what I can do.
John
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