yeah it is a very simple solution, round robin, http://www.inlab.de/balance.html
no session affinity, which requires introspection to do. ie, look up the session id (for example) in the request, and pass it on to the correct server kind of like jvmRoute Filip ----- Original Message ----- From: "Remy Maucherat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [next] What's next ? Filip Hanik wrote: >>- Java or native load balancer, with session affinity support. This >>could be the perfect commons project, and is not really related to Tomcat > > > After looking into it, writing a load balancer in Java will only cause the > load balancer to become a bottleneck nothing else, Java doesn't offer enough > low level to be able to do TCP load balancing well. I know there's the project called "balance" that you pointed out before, but I don't think it supports session affinity (bad, since session affinity is mandated by the spec). Remy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]