Anyway to balance loads in tomcat by partitioning User Names?

Question

For example: Once a user logged in, server side then needs to route the http traffics to a certain tomcat instance because all his/her files(not in DBMS but in local HD) stored on that machine and there will be interactions between the web app and underlying FS. Anyway to do this? Thanks!

Answer 1

This is often done by redirecting to a server specific URL at or following login. The users session then continues with that URL. I frequently find www replaced with www1, www2, etc, after login on sites I use.