[ejb cluster] Does wildfly9.0.2 supports load balance policy "FirstAvailable" as JBoss4.2.2

[lcheng_nj]

Hi, all

   We have one cluster environment, say there are two nodes: node1, node2, We deploy one stateless ejb on these nodes. The client invoke ejb with following sequence

   1. Look up ejb, and cache it

   2. Invoke ejb business logic method1

       invoke ejb business logic method2

       ....

  What we expected is that at step2, we always invoke ejb on the same JBoss(wildfly) server. E.g. If method1 is invoked on node1, then method2 is also invoked on node1.

   We can get this behavior with JBoss4.2, with following setting. I checked the jboss source code, the FirstAvaiable policy will first pick up one server and then always use this server once this server is running.

             <home-load-balance-policy>

                 org.jboss.ha.framework.interfaces.FirstAvailable

             </home-load-balance-policy>

             <bean-load-balance-policy>

                 org.jboss.ha.framework.interfaces.FirstAvailable

             </bean-load-balance-policy>

However, with Wildfly9.0.2, I'm don't know how to achieve this or whether is behavior is still supported.  Please help.

[wdfink]

This has been complete changed since AS7 and later WildFly.

The only available policy is "Random".

But you can implement the DeploymentNodeSelector and ClusterNodeSelector to control the behaviour at the client side.

The problem here is that the decision is made by client (not different for beans) and the NodeSelecto is per Context.

[lcheng_nj]

Thanks. This works for me.