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Build a highly available application platform for J2EE, Part 7: Design a highly available load balancer and HTTP server

Tom Gissel (gissel@us.ibm.com), Advisory Software Engineer, IBM
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Tom Gissel is a member of IBM WebSphere Technology Institute. In this role, Tom was recently the team lead for the Dynamic Workload Management and Dynamic Cluster Administration components within the WebSphere Extended Deployment product. He graduated in 1999 from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science. Contact Tom at gissel@us.ibm.com.
Marc Haberkorn (hmarc@us.ibm.com), Staff Software Engineer, IBM Corporation
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Marc Haberkorn is a software engineer in IBM's WebSphere Technology Institute. He started working at IBM in June 2003 after completing a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering at Penn State University. His most recent project participation was on the initial release of WebSphere Extended Deployment. Marc is a member of the Visualization team and contributed back-end high-availability code. Contact Marc at hmarc@us.ibm.com.

Summary:  Using IBM HTTP Server (IHS) and Network Dispatcher Load Balancer, learn how to build a demilitarized zone (DMZ) composed of highly available components in this tutorial. Read previous articles in this series to get more information about creating a highly available infrastructure.

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Date:  23 Aug 2005
Level:  Intermediate
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The mission of the IBM WebSphere Technology Institute is to invent and evaluate new technologies as well as assess mature ones that will be beneficial to IBM and its clients in future middleware products.

In this tutorial you learn how to build a demilitarized zone (DMZ) composed of highly available components.

If you want to make your load balancer and HTTP server highly available, especially as part of an end-to-end high availability (HA) solution, this tutorial is for you.

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In this tutorial, we assume you're familiar with Parts 1 - 6 of this series.

For technical questions or comments about the content of this tutorial, contact the authors at hmarc@us.ibm.com for Marc Haberkorn or gissel@us.ibm.com for Tom Gissel. Or click Feedback.

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