Re: Tomcat failover.

2006-10-26 Thread Leo Sakhvoruk
No you're right there'll always be a single point of failure unless there is a truly redundant environment. But, minimizing the number of links in a non-redundant chain minimizes the chance of one of those links failing ;) So I'm trying to cut down on the number of things it takes to have the s

Re: Tomcat failover.

2006-10-26 Thread Dennis Sinelnikov
2 mirror installations of apache httpd and dns round robin them. I could be wrong, but at some point you will have single point of failure -- either at apache httpd level or dns level. Dennis Leo Sakhvoruk wrote: Yeah, I've read the docs on mod_jk. It seems a self-defeating purpose to set up

Re: Tomcat failover.

2006-10-26 Thread Leo Sakhvoruk
Yeah, I've read the docs on mod_jk. It seems a self-defeating purpose to set up Apache httpd for load balancing and fail over because it introduces a single point of failure on the part of the Apache httpd. That's why I originally asked if the only way to set up fail over was via integration wi

Re: Tomcat failover.

2006-10-26 Thread Dennis Sinelnikov
Take a look at mod_jk, there are some great examples on apache's httpd website. Dennis Leo Sakhvoruk wrote: Excellent points Patrick! I will most certainly consider them as I look at clustering further. Thanks, Leo Patrick Moore wrote: Hi Leo -- From my experience, these are the questio

Re: Tomcat failover.

2006-10-25 Thread Leo Sakhvoruk
Excellent points Patrick! I will most certainly consider them as I look at clustering further. Thanks, Leo Patrick Moore wrote: Hi Leo -- From my experience, these are the questions that you should make sure were asked first: 1. What is the effect on the user experience if the new server

Re: Tomcat failover.

2006-10-25 Thread Patrick Moore
Hi Leo -- From my experience, these are the questions that you should make sure were asked first: 1. What is the effect on the user experience if the new server does not have the session information? 2. How large a memory footprint does each session occupy? 3. How often do session variables

Re: Tomcat failover.

2006-10-25 Thread Daniel Tabuenca
I'm not an expert, but you do not need Apache HTTPD server in order to get Tomcat to cluster (although you can certainly use it if you want). As far as tapestry, I don't think there is anything special you need to do other than make sure your session is serializable. On 10/25/06, Leo Sakhvoruk

Tomcat failover.

2006-10-25 Thread Leo Sakhvoruk
I know this is not a Tomcat list but I'm just hoping somebody's had experience in this area and could provide some quick guidance on the issue. I'm trying to setup a cluster of tomcat servers in session replication mode for failover purposes. Though it's pretty unclear from the docs if this kin