Re: Overwhelming a Web Application Server

From: Walden H. Leverich
Can't speak for other frameworks, but in ASP.Net the choice
between the 3 is a setting in web.config.

That sounds impressive. Is web.config the equivalent of J2EE's web.xml - holding configuration settings for each application?

What, are you nuts??? :-) I think most companies would rather
have the order than not ...

Okay, so you never set a session limit on the order entry application. I was thinking more in the context of course registration where the demand is so intense that students are waiting forever for a request to be answered - but the only answer that eventually comes is a cryptic system message or some sort of server dump. Then they go away, perceiving that the system is not only unavailable, but also unreliable.

Even better than the framework would be a load-aware load
balancer on the front end ...

That just shows how pervasive distributed architecture has become, to the point that people now think it's better to front-end one computer with another.

No, I was thinking more in terms of a procedure or method evoked from a web application to see if a session is available (whether a limit was reached), before instantiating a new one, at an application entry point? If not, then redirect the browser to a static page, applicable to THAT application.

Nathan.