Software load balancer

[Praveen Kumar Singh]

Hi All,
I am working on a web application where we will be using ActiveMQ internally, deployed on tomcat.
In front, to handle traffic we mange to have a hardware load balancer.

But internally, we need a load balancer for ActiveMQ/tomcat.
Any one having idea about a good 'software load balancer'

[Aneesh Vijendran]

Hi,
You could use apache's mod_proxy for load balancing (though not sure of the MQ stuff)

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/balancer-howto.html

[Praveen Kumar Singh]

Hey Aneesh,
Thanks for quick reply, looking into online docs !

[Ulf Dittmer]

If there's a hardware load balancer already, using Apache in addition to that seems strange. The question is: what do you envision this "software load balancer" to accomplish? Any why are you running ActiveMQ within Tomcat, instead of as a separate server process?