Re: deploying portlets in a different server

Elliot Metsger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.pluto.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nathaniel A. Johnson wrote:
> Is there a way to deploy portlets, bundled in WARs, into another tomcat
> server (that does not contain a portlet container) so load can be
> distributed a bit?  

If it were me I would set up a cluster of Apache HTTP servers and put a 
load balancer in front of them.  The http servers could be configured 
with mod_jk to loadbalance to backend Tomcat servers.

> Maybe the only answer is WSRP, but I figured this is
> the place to ask.

The Apache WSRP producer implementation actually uses Pluto under the 
hood, IIRC.

HTH,
Elliot
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