depending on the load balancer, you'll have to configure it for session affinity. i am not sure as far as a session sharing.. you almost have to use jboss or some other enterprise solution such as atg dynamo which has a sessionbackup manager that maintains sessions between the java app servers in its pool and provides session failover etc.
hope that helps jan-michael ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Della Bitta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:44 am Subject: Re: Tomcat session sharing behind loadbalanced apache servers > I haven't received any response to this. Should I assume it's not > currently possible? > > On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 05:44 PM, Michael Della Bitta > wrote: > > Hi, just wondering if anybody has managed to share sessions > among > > Tomcat installs behind Apache installs on separate machines > running > > behind a hardware load balancer. > > > > My university has three web servers, each with it's own Apache > linked > > up to it's own Tomcat. Apparently, my group is the only one > using > > sessions, so we're the only one with issues. Right now, we have > each > > of the Apaches passing on servlet requests to only one Tomcat, > which > > is less than ideal for obvious reasons. > > > > Michael Della Bitta > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
