Re: Session Information on Distributed Environment

2001-01-11 Thread David Wall
> Don't most load balancers try to keep a session going to the same > server? It might have a timeout setting that is less than your tomcat > session timeout... Cam said that they were using Bind, which is DNS and therefore is a simple round-robin approach. Normally this should work in that a cl

Re: Session Information on Distributed Environment

2001-01-10 Thread Robert Wohleb
Probably not praticle, but I am curious. How about having a servlet on each machine that all sessions to that server use. When it encounters an unknown sessionID, it polls the other servlets on the other computers to see if they have it If they do, they serialize it and send it off to the requ

Session Information on Distributed Environment

2001-01-10 Thread Cam DeBuck
We currenlty have a java servlet that is running on 3 machines. The only problem I've seen is trying to keep the session information on all three machines when the load balancer sends the user to another computer. I beleive we have hardware that is actually doing the load balancing and not so