Session replication

["Len Popp" <len.popp (at) gmail.com>]

I have run a Tomcat cluster without sticky sessions and it seems to
work fine. Here's a how-to for configuring session replication without
sticky sessions: http://www.paulkimbrel.com/?p=3

But I don't think sticky sessions are a problem for load balancing.
The server rack won't tip over if one server gets a couple of extra
requests because of a sticky session.
--
Len

On 10/16/06, Marko Zeisig <spiderjerusalem (at) gmx.at> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> i have a general question regarding session replication in tomcat 5.5, i am new to this topic. What i want to setup is a system with an hw-loadbalancer (or maybe an apache with mod_jk and worker.loadbalancer.balanced_workers) an 2 servers with one tomcat on each server. the application on both servers works with sessions, so i want session replication between those 2 tomcats. What confuses me: it is said in many documentations regarding the topic tomcat clustering/session replication  that i have to configure my lb with sticky sessions ?! That is exactly not want i want, what is the use of session replication if i configure my lb with sticky sessions in an setup described above. It makes sense for failover scenarios, but not when i want to loadbalance two tomcats with an applikation with sessions. So is that possible at all ?
>
> regards,
> sj
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