> For example, what if someone wrote in an
> implementation of HttpSessionListener that every time
> a session was created, you were billed $1.00 for a
> usage fee. In a one instance situation, you would be
> correctly billed, i.e. $1.00 per session creation.
> But on a 10 instance cluster, this behavior would
> bill you $10.00 per session creation.
>
Larry:
It's up to the listener to do what it wants to do. Just because
it got a notification on session creation, doesn't mean it will
update something, right?
> At the root of this issue is that the Servlet spec
> was not written with clusters in mind. Some
> implementors have interpreted the behavior for
> clusters in one way (Tomcat) and others (Glassfish)
> in a different way. There is no right or wrong here
> - and no one behavior would be "correct" for all
> cases.
I agree. We need an availability section in servlet spec.
- Kedar
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