This is a good link, for one thing it had a link to
another article that explains the stateless nature
of the http protocol as I understand it:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2000/jw-1221-servlets.html
"What is a session?
The interaction between a Web browser and a Web server is
Raul Valenberg typed the following on 03:36 PM 4/15/2001 -0600
We are designing a Web application with Servlets and JSPs that has to run on
several machines in a fail-over mode. Each machine also has to participate in
the workload as longs it is up. Furthermore, our requirements state that if a
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Subject: saving session attributes across server machines
Hi,
We are designing a Web application with Servlets and JSPs that has to run on
several machines in a fail-over mode. Each machine also has to participate
in
the workload as longs it is up. Furthermore, our requirements state that
Hi,
We are designing a Web application with Servlets and JSPs that has to run on
several machines in a fail-over mode. Each machine also has to participate in
the workload as longs it is up. Furthermore, our requirements state that if a
user session begins at one server, the fail-over to another
We are using a strategy where the information in the Java VM (session and
site-wide) is a read cache of what is in a relational database; any update is
persisted immediately, and there is a cache invalidation mechanism between
appservers. Since like most web apps we have a high read to write
