JBoss does come with other load-balance policies, like first available:
http://docs.jboss.com/jbossas/javadoc/4.0.2/org/jboss/ha/framework/interfaces/FirstAvailable.html.
There's also
http://docs.jboss.com/jbossas/javadoc/4.0.2/org/jboss/ha/framework/interfaces/FirstAvailableIdenticalAllProxies.h
Thanks for the reply
So can I say that JBoss clustering only support LB plus failover but not single
failover. If I need some failover deployment like EJB HA-JNDI failover(exclude
LB), I have to leverage some Hardward solution (Router IP Forward/NAT), we can
not archieve that feature within JBo
I think you can't configure HA-JNDI to direct all lookups to a single node.
I'm not familiar with 3.2.7 but in later code, HA-JNDI uses the smart proxy
with a round-robin policy to service HA-JNDI lookups. Perhaps I'm
misinterpreting something but that's my understanding of the current
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