Session Binding
On an ECE site that uses profiles (so that users can be created
on the page andthey can log in) and VCE sites, Apache is
really helpful in providing sticky sessions and load balancing
with its excellent mod_proxy_balancer
module.
Please be advised that you cannot use the application server
clustering (i.e. sharing a session between the application
servers) as these, regardless of their backend or
implementation, require that all objects written to the
Session
object are serializable. Currently,
not all ECE objects fulfil this requirement and you therefore
need to bind all sessions to a particular back end
(i.e. application server). This binding can either be done in
the web servers (as mentioned in the paragraph above) or on
some cache servers, such as
Oracle Web Cache .