Local Session Bean Failover

[jcr]

Using local stateful session beans accessed from the web layer creates a serialization exception when the cluster moves across session data. I can use the remote version by using Handles and reconnecting to the stateful session beans from the Handles, but I would like to get the locals and use them instead since there is less overhead and faster access. Is there any way around this?

Jared

[daorriss]

Interesting... I'm actually having problems figuring out how to handle failover in JBoss with *remote* access to SFSBs. Can you point me to a code example somewhere so I can try and fix *this* part? Perhaps we can then put our heads together to solve the local interface access problem (tho I think I might already know what your problem is - just not sure).

Hope to hear from you soon.

[jcr]

For failover at the web layer I created an object I call SessionCache, which I store in the use session.

public class SessionCache implements Serializable {
private transient Hashtable sessBeans = new Hashtable();
private Hashtable sessHandles = new Hashtable();

public SessionBean getSessionBean (String name) {
SessionBean sb = null;
Handle hh = null;
if ((sb = (SessionBean )sessBeans.get (name)) == null) {
if ((hh = (Handle )sessHandles.get(name)) != null) {
sb = hh.getEJBObject();
} else {
// make session bean here
}
}
return sb;
}
}

Hope this helps,

Jared