LoadBalancing application wrapped in JMX

garitt Aug 20, 2006 11:37 AM

Hi All,

I have wrapped an application using JMX and deployed in JBOSS as an MBean service.

I am using JBOSS clustering with difference instances running on different systems.

On deployment, the application is now available on all the running nodes which indicates that clustered environment is correctly setup.

An external client, is sending messages to this wrapped application by providing a particular IP address and port number.

As is obvious for Load Balancing, I am trying to ensure that if the number of message is more than X per sec, then the additional messages must go to the next node.

Can anyone suggest how can I achieve this ?

Regards,
Arijit

1. Re: LoadBalancing application wrapped in JMX

brian.stansberry Aug 20, 2006 3:08 PM (in response to garitt)

Probably the best approach is to create a ProxyFactoryHA mbean that will create an HA proxy for your service and bind it in JNDI. The HA proxy will include load balancing behavior, much like a proxy for a clustered EJB does. Your external client would then download the proxy from JNDI.

The forum thread at http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=77986 gets into this is some detail, including an as yet unresolved bug the user found (http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3194). He also describes his workaround for the bug.
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