Re: Tomcat 6 redeploy.

How is this a gimmick? It's semantically equivalent to an lb node status monitor. Traffic should not be sent to nodes that aren't up. 

-Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Remy Maucherat
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:52 AM
> To: Sacha Labourey; Robb Greathouse; Stan Silvert; Ryan Campbell;
> 'JBoss.org development list'; Scott M Stark
> Cc: The Core; Bill Burke
> Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Tomcat 6 redeploy.
> 
> > Better integration between Apache and tomcat through Mod_jk is something
> > you need to work on with Mladen: there is huge value in having the web
> > container communicate status information back to the web server (server
> > goes down, shutdown cluster, extend cluster size, new nodes, etc.)
> >
> > We need to start working on these end-to-end features: restarting an
> > application should be a smooth action for the user: if we have multiple
> > nodes the Apache LB should be made aware of that and use a different
> node
> > in the meantime.
> >
> > Mladen and Rémy, you should start adding JIRA tasks for this.
> 
> Sure, I have no problem with that.
> 
> I told you it's a bad idea: at best this capability is a useless gimmick.
> Beyond that, you can decide on the direction you want to follow and we'll
> (try to) implement it (and hopefully it will bring in more sales :) ).
> 
> Rémy


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