Taming Tomcat

Session replication

• To enable session replication in Tomcat, three different paths can be followed to achieve the exact same thing:
  • Using session persistence, and saving the session to a shared file system (PersistenceManager)
  • Using session persistence, and saving the session to a shared database (JDBCManager)
  • Using in-memory-replication, using the SimpleTcpCluster that ships with Tomcat 5 (server/lib/catalina-cluster.jar)
• Algorithm only efficient for quite small clusters
• Detailed documentation here

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