on 12/27/2000 10:07 AM, "Diethelm Guallar, Gonzalo"
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> 1. Is the load balancing always done from the web server? I know the
> web server could redirect all incoming requests to any of the app
> servers, probably based on some idea of the load present on each
> one. Is this the "standard" way of doing things? Does Apache
> support doing this? How do the commercial app servers (say,
> WebLogic or WebSphere), which come with their own web server,
> handle this? How does IIS handle it?
>
> 2. Would it be necessary for the web server to keep track of any
> concept of "session", so that successive requests from a given
> client are always handled to the same app server? If yes, who is
> responsible for keeping the mapping between session and app server,
> and how would the session be identified in an incoming request?
> Would cookies be required?
>
> 3. Does a Turbine-based servlet need to have any special code in order
> to handle this load balancing mechanism, or is this totally
> transparent for Turbine? If cookies are required, does Turbine know
> when and how to set the proper cookie?
RTM. :-)
<http://java.apache.org/jserv/howto.load-balancing.html>
Note that I'm not certain what the current status of this stuff is in
Tomcat.
-jon
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