Overview In my previous article about configuring a glassfish load balancer, I’ve used the mod_jk connector for the apache webserver. These time I’m going to show, how to solve this using the mod proxy balancer plugin shipped with the most apache installations. (A “cleaner” way in my oppinion) A couple of times I’ve tried to …
Tag Archive: high availability
Nov
01
Load balancing glassfish using apache
Overview After my articles about setting up a glassfish cluster and enable session replication, its now time to put a load balancer in front of it. A couple of times I’ve tried to get the Sun load balancing plugin working, but without success. This was because of some operating system issues or other problems. So …
Oct
31
Enable glassfish session replication
Overview One of the high availability methods provided by glassfish, is session replication. With session replication enabled, the server distributes session data across the cluster. If one cluster instances crashes, the session is still available on the other instances. Requirements A recent glassfish installation (versions prior to 2.1.1 had some bugs). A configured cluster (Look …
Oct
26
Glassfish cluster configuration
Overview After I looked around the web, I’ve found a few good howto’s about glassfish cluster configuration, but either they use only single machine clusters or they have some other disadvantages in my eyes. So I’ve decided to write my own article about this. This article will describes how to set up a two machine …