Load balancing is a function that improves overall system availability by equally distributing processing to parallel J2EE servers (typically seen in a cluster configuration). Load balancing can distribute create and invoke requests from clients to servers, processes, and threads.

The following table shows the structure of this section.

Table 3-7 Structure of this section (load balancing of requests)

Topic type	Title	Location
Description	Times when load balancing takes place	3.8.1
	Watching the load status	3.8.2
Settings	Specifying settings in the execution environment	3.8.3

Note: This section does not provide Implementation, Operation, and Notes types of topics that are specific to this function.

Load balancing can be performed across J2EE applications that share a schedule queue. By exchanging load information among CTM daemons, load balancing can also be performed for business-processing programs included in J2EE applications controlled by different schedule queues.

Organization of this section

3.8.1 Times when load balancing takes place

3.8.2 Watching the load status

3.8.3 Specifying settings in the execution environment