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My bubble: major Java and .Net apps have crazy server heavy state and communication. I have to wait for a round trip to an overloaded server to view a tab with

My bubble: major Java and .Net apps have crazy server heavy state and communication. I have to wait for a round trip to an overloaded server to view a tab with 50 words of info. They scold you for hitting back or refresh or idling 15 minutes and ask you to login again. Apparent "links" may be buttons and tabs may be unsupported. Does modern JSF have horizontal scalability and recover from state or networking hiccups?

bzzzt 4y ago
Technically, horizontal scaling is the job of the application server runtime. If you can keep server state limited it's possible to use clustered caches. Which requires a lot more setup than just failing over to another stateless node... A problem with component based frameworks like JSF is they like to put the entire component tree in the session to know which component is associated with a browser control. Complex pages will have a huge overhead to sync the state to a central cache or another node.