Hi,
I will let people answer the clustering question, but just one comment:
glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
> We are looking at the two alternatives for a clustered environment. The first being the with a hardware lb sitting in front of multiple web servers which lb the cluster. The second is just having the hw lb sitting in front of the GlassFish cluster.
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> My question is has there been any performance comparisons with these approaches? In the first approach we have another layer for requests to pass through but since we are using a native compiled web server I would suspect static content would be served quicker.
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> With the second we are relying on GlassFish's web server capabilities which I suspect is not as fast or efficient as say SJWS for serving content but we have eliminated another tier and the need for the lb plugin.
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Hey Hey :-)
Have you try it with your application? You might be surprised how fast
GlassFish can be ;-) I would recommend you try (make sure you read [1])
to see which one is the fastest with your application/load/OS. Might be
SJWS, might be not ;-)
Thanks
-- Jeanfrancois
[1]
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2007/03/configuring_gri_2.html
> Is there particular cases for using one approach over the other? Are there some performance benchmarks for each of these cases?
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> Thanks, S.D.
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