Preface

High availability is a broad topic to discuss, and it concerns both project deployment and development. In this book, I'd like to explore the topics on clustering, load balancing, failover, and session replication.

High availability is also a very interesting topic, and the technologies provided by open source communities are especially fun. In this book we'll learn how to use JBoss EAP6 together with other JBoss and Apache community tools to build a high-availability system.

Here is a brief list of the projects we'll use in this book: JBoss EAP 6, Apache httpd, mod_jk, and mod_cluster. When I'm writing this book, JBoss EAP 6.1.0.Final is the newest product version based on JBoss AS 7.2.x and can be downloaded freely from the JBoss community. ...

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