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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:49:53 -0400
From: Christopher Schultz <chris@christopherschultz.net>
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Subject: Re: tomcat cluster for stateless web application
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Pid,

On 6/13/12 8:12 AM, Pid * wrote:
> On 12 Jun 2012, at 18:22, Albert Kam <moonblade.wolf@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I've noticed that in the documentation, it says a lot about
>> session replication.
>> 
>> I wonder what can be omitted in the configurations for a
>> stateless java webapp setup (without any sessions), to hopefully
>> get a simpler configuration or even gain more efficiency, 
>> bypassing the replication altogether ?
> 
> Well, start by not configuring the cluster. That should be enough.

+1

Formal "clustering" (in Tomcat) is only useful for session
replication. If you don't need session replication, all you need is a
load balancer, and you don't really even need to configure it other
than to say "balance these backend servers in some way (rr,
load-based, request-based, etc.).

If you are using Apache httpd with mod_jk, then you just need an "lb"
worker with balance_workers set to all the backend workers, and
disable sticky sessions (because the default is to use sticky
sessions, but you aren't creating sessions, anyway, right?).

- -chris
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