Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

Karsten, can you give me a link to the bug that you're referencing?

Karsten Huneycutt wrote:
> Hello --
>
> I'm working to prepare the Shibboleth 2 IdP for production status, and I 
> need to get clustering to work before we can go live.  We're behind a 
> load balancer, so we have failover and actual load balancing solved, but 
> of course the two IdPs have to share state.
>
> We are running the IdP in JBoss 4.2.2, and Terracotta doesn't work with 
> JBoss 4.2.x.  It's an issue in the TC 2.5.x release version that has yet 
> to be fixed, according to their Jira.  We are running one other 
> application on those servers that requires JBoss 4.2.2, so changing 
> versions and/or running plain Tomcat are not options.
>
> So, that leaves me searching for other options.  JBoss, of course, has 
> perfectly good clustering functionality built into it, so unless there 
> are other options, I'd like to go ahead and use it.
>
>  From looking around, the Spring bean that really needs to be clustered 
> is shibboleth.StorageService, since everything else seems to use it as 
> the, well, storage service.  Is that correct?  If so, I think I can 
> probably write something that uses the JBoss clustering support and 
> implements the appropriate interface for the IdP code to use, sort of 
> like HA-Shib for 1.3.  Does that sound like a sane, reasonable option, 
> or am I missing something?
>
> Are there options I'm missing?
>
> Thanks!
>
> KH   
>
> PS:  the setup instructions for JBoss are incorrect and incomplete.  
> JBoss still requires the security provider manipulation, and the 
> connector information isn't correct.  If I use the information in the 
> Tomcat page, all seems to work.

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