On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Kenny MacLeod <kenny.macl...@kizoom.com> wrote: > I agree that it should be no means be the default setting, but in some cases > you *know* your production environment does not serialize sessions. > > For example, we run in a JBoss cluster with Tomcat session replication > disabled. Our sessions are full of legacy objects that are not serializable, > and it causes no problem whatsoever. There's no replication, and no session > passivation. > > All I'm suggesting is that the option is made available, with suitable > health warnings.
How much are you really saving here anyway? Is it really that much of a performance penalty to go through a proxy (compared to the rest of what goes on during a request cycle)? This sounds like a premature optimization to me.