Scaling Your Web Application

Added by Uri Cohen, last edited by Uri Cohen on Jun 17, 2009 (view change)

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Summary: This tutorial explains how your web application can be deployed into the GigaSpaces XAP platform and what are the benefits that can be obtained by doing so

Before You Begin - Set Up Your Environment

If you would like to build and run the tutorial sample application, download GigaSpaces and set up your Eclipse development environment.
If you also wish to utilize the GigaSpaces XAP load balancing agent, you should download and install the Apache 2.2 Http Server.

Deploying Your Web Application on GigaSpaces XAP - Step by Step

This tutorial explains how your existing web JEE web application can benefit from the GigaSpaces platform, showing you how to deploy a simple standard web application into the GigaSpaces environment to achieve high availability and self healing capabilities, how to achieve failover capabilities for your HTTP session and how to access the GigaSpaces data grid from within the web application.
This tutorial will also contain in the near future more advanced examples and patterns for web applications which are based on the GigaSpaces Spring PetClinic port

Adding Self-Healing and Automatic Scaling to Your Existing Web Application ~15 minutes
Shows how to take an existing web application (in our case a very simple servlet and JSP example) and deploy it to the GigaSpaces environment to achieve high availability and dynamic load balancer configuration

In this step you will learn...

Enabling HTTP Session Failover & Fault Tolerance ~15 minutes
Shows how to back your application's HTTP session store with the Space to achieve high availability and fault-tolerance

In this step you will learn...

Removing the Database Bottleneck ~15 minutes
Shows how to access the GigaSpaces XAP in memory data grid from within your web application to achieve unparalleled scalability and performance compared to a relational database.