Re: requests Load Balancing

Hi everyone, I am looking for suggestions on how to load balance SOAP
requests among multiple instances of SOAP server.

I am assuming webServer in front of multiple instances of servlet engine
configuration. Pretty standard.

I guess the following options are possible:
1) Load balancing among servers based on load or randomly per request
2) Load balancing based on the service name - this translates into
URL(webServers are designed for this)

The problem I am facing is that I need to maintain state between request.
The way I understand this, in SOAP interactions you can not rely on HTTP
session being active or on cookies.  Therefore, standard session based load
distribution can not work (I think).

Since I maintain the state it is preferrable to send the request to the same
SOAP engine instance as the previous request - that saves DB hit.

What are the options for accomplishing this in SOAP

Thank you all

Leo Golubovsky

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