JBoss As 6 recovering failover itself?

[deryaaltuntas]

Hello,

I read that  JBoss can handle load balancing itself (Sharing server load  between jboss instances) .I do not want load balancing between nodes. This site explains load balancing.

http://docs.jboss.org/jbossclustering/cluster_guide/5.1/html-single/

I want a Jboss instance working as a primary  instance.Second instance will run when primary instance is not available.But what I understand, Jboss could not recover failover itself.  I need to use Apache mod_jk in front of these  servers.

Am I right? If not, please show the way configuring failover recovery without a third party software.

[wdfink]

JBoss handle load balancing for clustered EJB applications, the client API will handle that.

Http is not load-balanced, so you need a instance to do it. If you use mod_jk or mod_cluster this will be 'automatic'.

If you don't want that you can use another approach, i.e. switch DNS entries or virtual IP address.

So you need a third-party to handle it