The advantage being that since you are always directed to a specific server in a cluster there is no need to replicate session data across the cluster, which is sometimes expensive. The disadvantage is poor failover support and not as efficient of a load distribution as with non-sticky.
-Igor > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wicket-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gwyn Evans > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 4:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wicket-user] render strategies > > On 17/09/05, Alexandru Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > #: Johan Compagner changed the world a bit at a time by saying on > 9/16/2005 11:50 AM :# > > > > > > But with not sticky session cluster environments can only really use > setting > > > 1. > > > > > > > Can you explain more of what a sticky/non-sticky cluster env is? > > It's a while since I looked at this area, so i can't recall the > details, but if I recall correctly, the underlying scenario where > you've got a cluster of servers with a front-end system to route the > requests. > If the front-end system is 'intelligent' enough, it may have the > option to keep track of the requests from a particular requester and > ensure that, (barring failover) they continue to go to the same > server. This would is termed to be a sticky session, whereas a simple > redirecter might not keep track of previous requests and simply pass a > follow-on request to a different server from that which handled an > original request, thus non-sticky. > > /Gwyn > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. > Download > it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own > Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > Wicket-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
