> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will Stranathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 8:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Does Tomcat-3.2.3 supports Distributed Sessions ?
>
>
> Not 100% positive, but I *think* the answer is no, there. When load
> balancing 3.2.3, it uses sticky sessions - i.e., if you hit a service
> that gives you a session, you keep going back to that service - the
> session doesn't span all the instances.
>
> Will Stranathan
That's pretty much correct - except that Tomcat doesn't do anything
about it. You need to set up your load balancers to send the redirects
based upon jsessionid (either cookie or URL parameter).
Because Tomcat is open source, and has a very open architecture,
there is no reason that you couldn't replace the session classes with one
that would support Distributed Sessions. In fact, you might even be able to
turn that into a product and recoup the development costs. There has been
plenty of talk on this subject, but no one has ever reached the point where
they had anything to test.
Randy
>
> David Cassidy wrote:
>
> > when you get one let me know !
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> > Lomesh Contractor wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >> Does anybody knows, whether Tomcat-3.2.3 supports
> Distributed
> >>sessions
> >>across multiple web servers and Tomcat integration on each
> web server
> >>?
> >>
> >> Waiting for kind reply...
> >>
> >>Lomesh.
> >>
> >
>
>
