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Re: HTTP Load Balancers Concept- Sun One App Server 9.1

From: Shreedhar Ganapathy <Shreedhar.Ganapathy_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:02:15 -0800

glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
> Hi Venu,
>
> There are two flavor of application server available:
> 1. opensource version - GlassFish
> 2. Enterprise version - Sun Glassfish Enterprise server
>
> Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server has load-balancer plugin bundled inside the distribution. It also has installer support to install load-balancer plugin on a web-server. However it comes at a cost.
>
Just to clarify, AFAICT, the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server download is
free as well. The cost I believe is download size. Am I right?

> For GlassFish, user has to download load-balancer plugin from external site. There is no installer support, hence user need to configure it manually. Documentation is available on how-to manually configure in all supported web-server.
>
> Functionality wise there is no difference at all.
>
> Now coming to load-balancer xml :
> User can either export load-balancer xml on DAS and copy it manually to web-server for it to work.
> OR
> User can configure http load-balancer in DAS correctly and import DAS certificate in web-server. After this configuration DAS will automatically push load-balancer xml to web-server on the wire. No further manual intervention needed.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Kshitiz
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