Ashok -
I have a similar requirement. Did you discover any information about
this? Any info you can provide would be great.

Thanks!


Ashok Kumar wrote:
> I have a cluster of nodes that comprise the 'EJB' tier of an enterprise application.
> They service requests from both "interactive" and "batch" clients.
>
> I would like to dedicate one of them for processing 'batch' jobs that get initiated by
> JMS messages. I would therefore want this designated node to not be the target of
> EJB requests from remote clients [i.e remote clients should not be getting stubs
> to EJBHome or EJBRemote objects hosted on the node].
>
> Is this configuration achievable in a WebLogic 8.1 environment?
>
> Tried using a weighted load-balancing scheme with a weight of 1 for the "batch" node
> and 100 for the other nodes. Remote EJB requests continued to get "round-robin" balanced
> among the nodes. Looked like the weighting did not work.
> The RMI protocol used "t3" and not "iiop" and that should have worked but did not
> [according to the documentation weighted load-balancing is not supported with
> RMI/iiop protocol]
>
> I was told to consider achieving this capability through security policies.
> Given that the EJBs are being deployed to the "cluster" rather than to
> individual nodes, it is not clear to me that one can have a separate security policy
> for the EJBs deployed to the "batch" node.
>
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