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Re: Glassfish Clustering Setup

From: Dick Davies <rasputnik_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:25:41 +0100

On 07/06/07, glassfish_at_javadesktop.org <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org> wrote:

> From what I've read, the bit that really baffles me is why the Sun Java Web Server is required when Glassfish can service HTTP requests on its own. Why is, what is effectively a third party bit of software, required? Why can't you just create, for example, three instances of glassfish then link them together to as one logical cluster.

The SJWS bits just spread requests across the backend glassfish
servers. There's an apache plugin to do the same, or you can just use
a standard application switch like a netscaler or BigIP. See:

http://blogs.sun.com/Prashanth/entry/load_balancing_glassfish_v2_with
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