Thanks, Christian. I'll definitely check it out. -Lance
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Christian Migowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Lance, > > I use Pen (http://siag.nu/pen/) for several projects and haven't had any > issues with it yet. If you need only level 4 (tcp) loadbbalancing and you > can live with a non-Java solution (its source is available and it is quite > simple), i recommend it very much. > > hth, > christian! > > > 2008/11/14, Lance Woodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Hello, I am looking at developing an application that will allow >> non-HTTP clients to connect to a server clustered with Terracotta >> (http://www.terracotta.org/). Load-balancing will be one of the >> requirements involved, so that the first time a client connects, they >> are assigned a node and thereafter any messages from that client need >> to be routed to that node. For cost reasons, I would like to stick to >> an open-source software-based solution. >> >> There are a lot of HTTP proxies available that can do this for HTTP >> requests using layer 7 load balancing, and something along those lines >> would be ideal for my situation if communication was going across >> HTTP. Does anyone know if Mina has an already imlemented >> server-proxying mechanism? Or perhaps of any 3rd party open-source >> load balancing proxying software that might be configurable/extensible >> to the point of load balancing Mina sessions and forwarding messages >> to a mina-interfaced destination node? >> >> If there are no good answers to the above, I'll likely be looking at >> designing and implementing something to handle this. Would there be >> interest in this becoming part of the general Mina distribution or >> possibly an extension/subproject (ala the spring integration)? >> >
