HTTP invoker and sticky session

[mgarber]

I have bunch of web servers exposing some funcitonality for remote clients via Spring Remoting(the default, HTTP invoker kind). They are behind a hardware load balancer. Everything works great.

Now, I have a requirement to see if I can provide session affinity of sort, so the subsequent requests will be processed by the same box which served the "first" request.

What are my options?

TIA

[Ben Alex]

Why do you need sticky sessions with web services? You should try to leverage your client-side to store its own session state, so you get better horizontal scalability on the cluster. Usually your hardware load balancer - like a Cisco Load Director - can support sticky sessions for you.