Re: Tomcat Clustering Support - Without any load balancer like component in the front

2007-11-27 Thread Gary Evesson
mod_jk handles failover for you. Clustering tomcat makes it copy sessions to all members of the clusters so that any member of the cluster can take over the processing of a request seamlessly from any other. If you requests have no way of getting to the other members of the cluster, then there is

Re: Tomcat Clustering Support - Without any load balancer like component in the front

2007-11-27 Thread mfs
Thanks for the quick reply Gary.. Some follow-up questions. 1) So the http server bundled with tomcat doesn't do any help ? like it doesnt provide any load-balancing implementation ? like e.g. mod-jk which has to be used in conjunction with apache...Further I presume mod-jk also handles the fail

Re: Tomcat Clustering Support - Without any load balancer like component in the front

2007-11-27 Thread Gary Evesson
You need something to handle failover. Otherwise there is not a huge amount of point. Either a load balancer or mod-jk will do the job. On Nov 27, 2007 4:13 PM, mfs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guys, > > Pretty basic question, given this is my time experience on clustering > where > i am trying