I don't understand how that could possibly work without the
implementation of some hardware like Cisco Redirector.
Cheers!
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gangadhar Kasa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: loadbalancing
> You can do load balancing as follows:
>
> 1) Store the real server name in the form of cookie along with the
Session info.
>
> 2) Check every request for the cookie info.
> 3) If the Cookie contains a different server name use HTTP redirect
to send the
> request to the other server.
>
>
> Gangadhar
>
> Gokul Singh wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Thomas Brusa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > > we're installing tomcat on two webservers and want to establish
> > > loadbalancing.
> > > since we couldn't find any documentation I'm asking you.
> >
> > I am not sure how tomcat supports distributed environments, but as
it is the
> > referance implementation, I believe it should do what the specs
say about
> > it.
> >
> > > how is it possible to share servletcontext across servers?
> >
> > <from servlet spec 2.3PFD>
> > 3.3.1 Context Attributes in a Distributed Container
> > Context attributes exist locally to the VM in which they were
created and
> > placed. This
> > prevents the ServletContext from being used as a distributed
shared memory
> > store. If
> > information needs to be shared between servlets running in a
distributed
> > environment, that
> > information should be placed into a session (See Chapter 8,
"Sessions"), a
> > database or set in
> > an Enterprise JavaBean.
> > </from servlet spec 2.3PFD>
> >
> > > what about sessions?
> >
> > Please refer *section 7.7.2* of the servlet specs. It details all
the
> > details of sessions in a distributed environment.
> >
> > How much of the above is supported by Tomcat, I am not sure. I
think you can
> > get more details about this on the tomcat mailing lists at
> > http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html
> >
> > Regds,
> > Gokul
> >
> > >
> > > thanx thomas
> > >
> >
> >
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