HTTP Session Replication

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Overview

The web application will be clustered if its web.xml contains the <distributable> tag:

<web-app  xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee 
                              http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" 
          version="2.4">
    <distributable/>
    <!-- ... -->
</web-app>

From a server's perspective, <distributable> tells it to use a clustered session manager, which replicates (or distributes) sessions across the cluster, so all EAP nodes can have access to it. This way if a node fails, requests can be directed to other node, which still has access to the session state.

The sever also must to be configured to support HTTP session clustering, see WildFly Server Configuration below.

WildFly Server Configuration

WildFly Infinispan HTTP Session Replication Configuration