[jetty-users] Fast request forwarding

[Martin Hewitt <martin.hewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'm looking at creating a failover controller component that will
monitor a cluster of servers and, should they fail, redirect traffic
to a different cluster.

The failover response needs to be swift, which is why this is
happening in the application level instead of somewhere like DNS.

I'm looking at Jetty because we use it widely in our other software
packages, and it'd be nice to keep a consistent collection of
libraries.

My current thinking is that the component will know which cluster is
"active" and will simply forward on requests to that component, so my
question is: what's the fastest way of passing on these requests? A
simple ProxyServlet or is there a speedier way?

Thanks,

Martin