In the midst of architecting a new system and considering clustering Tomcat servers to share the same files from a NetApp mount point. Specifically, configuring multiple instances (server.xml) of Tomcat to share the same /usr/local/tomcat, webapps, etc. Does Catalina support this type (e.g. master/slaves file share) of architecture? Has anyone implemented this that can comment on any issues? I was wondering how things like autodeploy and JSP compile would be coordinated between multiple instances. I'm thinking that each instance has it's own server.xml that controls that, but would like to get a sanity check.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, --Mike M.
