seam 3 identity on a cluster

[kgoedert]

Hi,

Everything that I read on the forum tells me that I should have no problems running a seam 3 application o jboss cluster. I also read on seam security docs that the Identity is a session scoped bean. So I assume that it would be replicated between nodes. Am I wrong in my assumption?

If I log into my application and the request goes to node1, I login without problem. If I shut the node down, my request goes to node 2 as expected but I am not considered to be logged in anymore.

What can be wrong?

Thanks for the help.

Kelly

[zeeman]

JSF is stateful, so you need to have sessions replication if you're going to have clustering. So all of your session beans get replicated, if a node dies, another will be able to serve the request. Don't expect to scale much with stateful designs.

If you want to avoid this, you can put a hash of user identity in cookie and check on each request, so you move to stateless. JSF 2.2 will have a stateless mode.Stateless is the way to go but it's hard to acheive.