Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 7 Release Notes

Session Replication

The following table lists the known issues in the session replication functionality of Web Server 7.0.

Table 13 Known Issues in Session Replication

Problem ID 

Description 

6324321 

Descriptive error message is not displayed when an error occurs remotely.

When an exception occurs remotely, error messages are logged in the error log of the remote instance. However, the local instance currently displays a generic remote exception which does not clearly indicate which error log that the user must view. 

6396820 

Session replication does not failover correctly when cookies are disabled on the client.

6406176 

When enabled, session replication should be the default session manager.

After enabling session replication by using the Admin Console or the CLI, or by editing the server.xml file, session replication is not really enabled. Instead, sun-web.xml needs to be manually edited.

6800993 

A minor data loss occurs, as async cluster is not available.

It is observed that a small amount of http session data loss can occur in few cases. Asynchronous implementation, by using asnyc parameter, in session failover might resolve this issue.