RE: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2002-02-19 Thread Aaron Smuts
as well. I'll take a look. . . . Aaron > -Original Message- > From: Filip Hanik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 9:12 PM > To: Tomcat Developers List > Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited > > hi, let me intr

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2002-02-17 Thread Filip Hanik
hi, let me introduce myself. My name is Filip Hanik and I just rejoined this mailing list since my time has freed up a little bit lately. I was looking through the source code and the archives and was wondering what the status Tomcat has on session replication. When looking through the source cod

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-15 Thread Tom Drake
List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tom Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:41 AM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited | | | On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Tom Drake wrote: | | > I want a distributed session store, where all sessions

RE: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-15 Thread GOMEZ Henri
>> Costin, >> >> that point of view is really interesting. What about separating the >> distribution part from the integration part of a integrated solution. >> That would user's give the option to use the "transparent session >> replication" or to use "explicit object replication services". >> Th

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-15 Thread Tom Drake
seum on this list). Tom - Original Message - From: "Mika Goeckel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 3:24 AM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited | Costin, | | that p

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-15 Thread cmanolache
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Mika Goeckel wrote: > Costin, > > that point of view is really interesting. What about separating the > distribution part from the integration part of a integrated solution. > That would user's give the option to use the "transparent session > replication" or to use "explicit

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-15 Thread Mika Goeckel
, November 14, 2001 6:27 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited > To clarify: creating a Distributed Session Manager is a good idea, and > something that would be great for users. > > My problem is with designing it at container-level, as an implementation > o

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-14 Thread cmanolache
To clarify: creating a Distributed Session Manager is a good idea, and something that would be great for users. My problem is with designing it at container-level, as an implementation of the servlet session API. Having all objects in a session distributed and no control or feedback is not good.

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-14 Thread jean-frederic clere
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Paul Speed wrote: > > > I think the idea is that you'd byte compare on "commit" which ideally > > would happen at request boundaries. So in this case a single request > > becomes a "transaction"... which indeed opens up its own issues, but > > n

AW: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-14 Thread Lauer, Oliver
November 2001 11:26 An: Tomcat Developers List Betreff: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 12:26 AM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Dis

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-14 Thread Mika Goeckel
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 12:26 AM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Mika Goeckel wrote: > > >

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread cmanolache
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Paul Speed wrote: > I think the idea is that you'd byte compare on "commit" which ideally > would happen at request boundaries. So in this case a single request > becomes a "transaction"... which indeed opens up its own issues, but > no bigger than the ones that were always

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Tom Drake
See below - Original Message - From: "Paul Speed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 3:48 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited ... stuff deleted ... | | Th

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Paul Speed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Mika Goeckel wrote: > > > I completely agree, that the API lacks proactive support for things in the > > background that may fail. > > But given the fact, that we support a reference implementation which has > > managed to provide really profes

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Paul Speed
Mika Goeckel wrote: > [ snip ] > > > > I'm not saying this is necessarily a "good" idea, but you can byte > > compare the resulting session serialization to see if the session > > objects have changed. All you have to do is keep a local copy of > > the original session during the request. Not

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread cmanolache
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Mika Goeckel wrote: > I completely agree, that the API lacks proactive support for things in the > background that may fail. > But given the fact, that we support a reference implementation which has > managed to provide really professional services to users (other ref > impl

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Mika Goeckel
- Original Message - From: "Paul Speed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:30 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited > > > Tom Drake wrote: >

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Paul Speed
Tom Drake wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tom Drake" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:25

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Tom Drake
See my comments below. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tom Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 2:08 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Tom Drake
- Original Message - From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tom Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:25 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Manag

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread costinm
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Tom Drake wrote: > | One question - wouldn't be better if the 'distributed session management' > | would be first designed and discussed _outside_ of the ServletSession > | context ? > > I agree. > > | Designing the SessionManager as a standalone component would make a lot of

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited > > > - Original Message - > From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
> > Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited > > > - Original Message - > From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tom Drake" > <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Tom Drake
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Tom Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:05 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited | | On

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Tom Drake
- Original Message - From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:31 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited | | | On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Mik

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Tom Drake
- Original Message - From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tom Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:41 AM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Tom Drake
See below. - Original Message - From: "Pier Fumagalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:23 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited | > ASFAICT, minimal

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread cmanolache
One question - wouldn't be better if the 'distributed session management' would be first designed and discussed _outside_ of the ServletSession context ? In other words, a SessionManager that would store and provide fail-over, etc for serializable objects. It can have a rich interface, including

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Mika Goeckel
sage - From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:31 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited > > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Mika Goeckel wrote: &g

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Pier Fumagalli wrote: > > So, basically, we have to design a lock/unlock mechanism (that complicates > stuff). It would be easier to achieve without that requirement... (god knows > why Danny added it). > See the answer I just sent for more details -- not enforcing this re

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Mika Goeckel wrote: > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:19:35 +0100 > From: Mika Goeckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distrib

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Mika Goeckel
> Can't help you on that... But, if we "customize" the lookup tables > abstracting it from JNDI, we could write also some C code for the web-server > modules that could participate in our session pooling group, and direct > requests where they should be, two pigeons with a single shot :) Somethi

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 13/11/2001 07:59 pm, "Mika Goeckel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scenario: > > 4) 10 Tomcat webservers acting as SessionManagers for Sessions initially > created by themselves or being assigned responsibility afterwards for a > specific session. > In this scenario every Tomcat backs up sessio

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 13/11/2001 07:41 pm, "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Tom Drake wrote: > >> I want a distributed session store, where all sessions are known (or >> are knowable) by all members of the cluster, with a built-in >> fail-over mechanism? > > As you guy

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 13/11/2001 06:53 pm, "Tom Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > SNMP, ah ja. I've got no knowledge at all 'bout that, so fight with some > | > other lobbyists :-) > | > | Same here... > > Didn't mean to take a left turn. Sorry I mentioned it. Oh, I mean, I don't mind... The only thing is t

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Mika Goeckel
; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tom Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 8:41 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited > > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Tom Drake wrote: &g

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Mika Goeckel
:-) > | On 13/11/2001 04:38 pm, "Mika Goeckel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | > SNMP, ah ja. I've got no knowledge at all 'bout that, so fight with some > | > other lobbyists :-) > | > | Same here... > > Didn't mean to take a left turn. Sorry I mentioned it. No need to mention, nobody felt

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Tom Drake wrote: > I want a distributed session store, where all sessions are known (or > are knowable) by all members of the cluster, with a built-in > fail-over mechanism? As you guys discuss this, don't forget a very important requirement in the servlet specification wi

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Tom Drake
- Original Message - From: "GOMEZ Henri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:15 AM Subject: RE: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited ... stuff deleted ... | >Notice also,

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Tom Drake
- Original Message - From: "Pier Fumagalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 8:56 AM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited | On 13/11/2001 04:38 pm, "Mi

RE: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread GOMEZ Henri
>Pier: > >Great discussion points. I really appreciate your thoughtful feedback. > >My comment about Tomcat caching session data does not preclude >it from being stored in the remote session server. Indeed, this would >be required. My thought was this, in a multi-node network if multiple >contiguo

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Antony Bowesman
Hi, Interesting discussion, it's good to see some on this distribution issue, the devils always in the detail! See comments > | > But how would they know where the sessions ended up > > All session managers keep a copy of all sessions. So, it doesn't matter > which server a client talks to

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 13/11/2001 04:38 pm, "Mika Goeckel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SNMP, ah ja. I've got no knowledge at all 'bout that, so fight with some > other lobbyists :-) Same here... > SessionManager/ServletContainer dualism: > If we don't create a separate SessionManager residing in it's own JVM,

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Mika Goeckel
link with. Mika - Original Message - From: "Tom Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 4:47 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited > Pier, Mikal: > > I

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Tom Drake
Pier, Mikal: I agree, I think the juices are flowing. See below Tom - Original Message - From: "Mika Goeckel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:37 AM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distribu

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Tom Drake
throws RemoteException; public void removeSessionAttribute(String sessionId, String attributeName, byte [] value) throws RemoteException; - Original Message - From: "Pier Fumagalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-13 Thread Mika Goeckel
Pier, Tom, cool, the discussion is starting to become interesting. :-) comments below: - Original Message - From: "Pier Fumagalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 3:04 AM Subject:

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-12 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 13/11/2001 12:54 am, "Tom Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mika: > > Thanks for the reply. Here's some more thoughts on this subject. > > The primary problem that I see with the collaborative method > (e.g. extending the multicast solution) is > that all sessions will have to be sent to a

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-12 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 12/11/2001 11:14 pm, "Mika Goeckel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would vote for the cooperative approach, but I'd like to add some > thoughts: > > Besides the primary session manager, there needs to be a backup session > manager that captures the changes of sessions as well and is the crown

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-12 Thread Tom Drake
mplete failure of the remote session manager. Tom - Original Message - From: "Pier Fumagalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 4:28 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Mana

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-12 Thread Tom Drake
It's up to the web-application to replace these values into the Session if their contents change. This is enough for us to be able to track which attributes have actually changed. Tom - Original Message - From: "Mika Goeckel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-12 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 12/11/2001 10:19 pm, "Tom Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tomcat Developers: > > This is a forward of a message that I sent to Bip and Craig a few days ago, > regarding distributed session managment (aka Clustering). I haven't gotten > any feedback just yet, so I thought I'd throw this ou

Re: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-12 Thread Mika Goeckel
t: Monday, November 12, 2001 11:19 PM Subject: Fw: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited > Tomcat Developers: > > This is a forward of a message that I sent to Bip and Craig a few days ago, > regarding distributed session managment (aka Clustering). I haven't gotten >

Fw: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited

2001-11-12 Thread Tom Drake
Tom Drake Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Tom Drake To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 10:48 PM Subject: Tomcat: Distributed Session Management revisited Bip: I've looked closely at the existing catalina distributed sess