330 WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Concepts, Planning, and Design Guide
10.8 Session management
This section introduces the session management concept and explains how you can manage
the sessions with WebSphere Application Server.
10.8.1 Overview
Multisystem scaling techniques rely on using multiple copies of an application server. Multiple
consecutive requests from various clients can be serviced by different servers. If each client
request is independent of every other client request, it does not matter whether consecutive
requests are processed on the same server. However, in practice, client requests are not
always independent. A client often makes a request, waits for the result, and then makes one
or more subsequent requests. The processi ...