How is this a gimmick? It's semantically equivalent to an lb node status monitor. Traffic should not be sent to nodes that aren't up.
-Jason > -----Original Message----- > From: Remy Maucherat > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:52 AM > To: Sacha Labourey; Robb Greathouse; Stan Silvert; Ryan Campbell; > 'JBoss.org development list'; Scott M Stark > Cc: The Core; Bill Burke > Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Tomcat 6 redeploy. > > > Better integration between Apache and tomcat through Mod_jk is something > > you need to work on with Mladen: there is huge value in having the web > > container communicate status information back to the web server (server > > goes down, shutdown cluster, extend cluster size, new nodes, etc.) > > > > We need to start working on these end-to-end features: restarting an > > application should be a smooth action for the user: if we have multiple > > nodes the Apache LB should be made aware of that and use a different > node > > in the meantime. > > > > Mladen and Rémy, you should start adding JIRA tasks for this. > > Sure, I have no problem with that. > > I told you it's a bad idea: at best this capability is a useless gimmick. > Beyond that, you can decide on the direction you want to follow and we'll > (try to) implement it (and hopefully it will bring in more sales :) ). > > Rémy Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ JBoss-Development mailing list JBoss-Development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development