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[jsr340-experts] Re: Distributed Sessions was: Support for Platform as a service model in Java EE

From: Wenbo Zhu <wenbozhu_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 01:41:54 -0700

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Greg Wilkins <gregw_at_intalio.com> wrote:

> On 29 May 2011 20:44, Wenbo Zhu <wenbozhu_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I had proposed for JSR-315 to add a "distributed" directive for sessions,
> > similar to the existing "distributed" container, so the requirement to
> have
> > "all the requests to be served by the same instance at any time" can be
> > relaxed.
>
> Can you expand again on your reasons for wanting this.
>
The current requirements imply session "stickiness" (for the sake of
in-memory synchronization) which isn't always desirable.


> cheers
>