simple clustering - no J2ee

[poojac20]

Hi

I am running a service inside JBoss - the service listens on a port - the long term plan is to have a complete J2EE Application running within to which my service will make calls. But for now it is a simple service , which for the sake of argument lets say simply echoes the request back.

I want to cluster JBoss - so that if one server goes down another can pick up the next incoming requests - There is no state maintenance required.

What shud I do to enable this - I got JBoss Cluster documentation from a friend but even that talks abt clustering in reference to EJBs/JSPs - Please tell me how to do it for a simple service with no frills attached?

The whole requirment is if my service is listening on port 7000, and a request comes in - and the server goes down , another node shud get activatd and my service hosted in it (may be listening on 7001) shud be able to respond.

Thanks
--- Pooja.

[ben.wang]

Currently we don't offer MBean service clustering. It is the clustering roadmap though.

-Ben

[abitha]

We use regular java classes, and use mod-jk as the load balancer. We specify all the servers in the worker.properties file, and it load balances automatically. I believe that when one server goes down, it will automatically redirect requests to the other server.

Abitha.

[ben.wang]

are you referring to http load balancing? This is about regular MBean in JBossMX though.

-Ben

[poojac20]

Yes, my service is an MBean, Listening on a port.

So, I cant cluster it. right? I'll still work on the load balancer. Thanx for the reply.

Regards
--- Pooja.