I have read with a lot of interest the docs about new IceGrid features,
that, as usual, are really great !!
But checking (Java, easier for me
) source code to see what happens
on the client side, it seems that endpoints retrieved by locator are
always cached at Communicator level.
This means that on a middle tier, acting as multiple concurrent clients,
all the invocations should go to the same server.
In a usage patter like the following, for each request processed on the
middle tier (e.g. a servlet):
......
// select target server identity
ObjectPrx prx = communicator.stringToProxy(id);
//invoke operation on proxy
....
The endpoints attached to the Reference used by proxy prx will
never change because of the cache.
Am I wrong ?
Maybe there should be a way to trigger locator.findObjectById()
each time a proxy construction is requested, so that load balancing
strategies can take place.
Guido