Session Questions , is it possible?

[richard moon <rb...@MailAndNews.com>]

Hi,

Just about to dive into our first project using tomcat in anger and I am 
unclear if our setup will work, advice at an early stage would be welcome.

We have four web servers load balanced by hardware, currently running apache 
and mod-perl applications - Is it possible to run 4 tomcat workers one on each 
server and have each apache install configured to "tomcat load balance" across 
the four workers - so that when a client comes through the hardware 
loadbalancer it will be serviced by the correct worker to maintain sticky 
sessions properly?

Don't want to get into coding persistent sessions - do want to use tomcat for 
some larger applications - if anyone has thoughts regarding speed / approach 
for this problem i'd be grateful - we would be hardware load balancing the 
static pages and software load balancing the jsp I guess.

Many thanks in advance