August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
18h 34m
English
A client application doesn't do anything different when creating a component that is load balanced than it does when creating one that isn't. The client application simply creates an object, specifying the load-balancing router as the host. The client doesn't know whether the object that resulted from the call is running on a machine it specified or on one to which the writer delegated the object creation. In general, you probably don't want your clients to have to care whether their components are load balanced or not.
A client should be aware that, if a component is load balanced, the death of a server doesn't necessarily mean that the client is useless until the server comes back up. The application cluster ...
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