Madhur K Tanwani wrote: > I am trying to build a > load balancer which enforces the following :- > - chooses from the available "alive" workers from the cluster, > in a Round-Robin / Least-Load-First manner > - implements session affinity See: http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/ > - includes fail over support with session replication, so there is no > loss > of session data > - The transition is transparent to the user. Hence, whatever be the > "redirectURL", the URL in the browser should not change See: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/cluster-howto.html > > On another note, I wanted to ask the clustering and load-balancing gurus, > whether I've taken up the correct approach. I see that many load balancing > tutorials focus on Apache as the load balancer with Tomcat as the worker > in clusters. But since most of them are old, I assume the new Tomcat 5.5 > features did not make it then - hence the question. You can use Apache2, mod_jk1.2 and Tomcat's session replication for what you plan to do. However session replication looks as easy as putting <distributable/> into web.xml, but actually keeping the webapp session serializable and small has to be kept in mind always.
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