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Mark,

On 9/15/2011 3:17 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:
> On 14/09/2011 23:03, Christopher Schultz wrote:
>> John,
>> 
>> On 9/13/2011 5:51 AM, John Bass wrote:
>>> In the event of a node failure, I'm assuming that there's no
>>> way to recover from that and the failure will be visible to a
>>> client application.
>> 
>> Correct: no other node in the cluster can serve the response
>> being generated by a dying Tomcat instance. As Pid points out,
>> this isn't unique to Tomcat.
> 
> Wrong. See my longer response.

To pick a nit, the dying Tomcat dies. No other server can send it's
response. Instead, your load-balancer can retry the request on another
server. That's not the same thing -- especially when OP is talking
about long-running requests.

- -chris
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