Yea for clustering in tomcat!
July 25, 2005
Well, it only took a week to find on little crucial line missing in my tomcat configuration. I’ve been spending obscene amounts of time trying to get a simple tomcat cluster up and running for fail-over testing and tonight - it actually worked. It’s pretty slick how I can just drop one of the servers and my tapestry sessions still work. Bring the dead server back up and *poof* it starts processing requests.
It was quite frustrating trying to wade through the thousands of posts on how to cluster (98% of which didn’t pertain to what I was trying to do). I also find it amazing that if I followed what most of these sites said to do, I’d still be scratching my head trying to figure things out.
My goal: failover.