Re: Load Balancing in Oracle 9i Forms Application

yagish_at_msn.com (yagish) wrote in
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> Hi Techies,
>
> Am really new with the Oracle 9i Forms and am searching for a way to
> perform Load Balancing in Oracle 9i Forms Application. Its not a J2EE
> application, so cannot go the OC4J way.
> I need Load Balancing at 2 levels -
>
> 1) Load Balancing of the Forms Server
> 2) Load Balancing of the Database
>
> This means, a request from a client is forwarded to the Forms Server
> having minimum load. And, Forms Server further communicates to the
> database with the minimum load.( The databases are synchronized )
>
> I need some pointers, on "How" can this be done.
>
> Please suggest some ways, and feel free to ask any further questions.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Yagish Sharma

Keep in mind that "Load Balancing of the Forms Server" only occurs upon initial login. None of the other Forms servers would have any history of your session after logon.

One way is to use Oracle's WebCache.
Another is a hardware solution such as Big IP from F5. Received on Thu Jul 22 2004 - 19:06:30 CDT