Clustered Oracle 9i AS and OC4J Problem

Question

Hi,
I am working with two Oracle 9i AS (9.0.2.0.1), serverA and serverB, in a clustered environment. I have published a servlet to the cluster under the URL of /MyApp and the main servlet is MyServlet. I have noticed that when I go to either URL:
http://serverA/MyApp/MyServlet
or
http://serverB/MyApp/MyServlet
my servlet will show up fine but sometimes when going to serverA it will actually use the servlet running on serverB, and vice versa. I am able to verify this by looking at the log files. At first I wasn't sure why it would do this but it makes sense that in a clustered environment it would pick either of the servers to load balance the application. After reading some Oracle documentation it re-enforced the way the AS works.
Recently I have noticed some problems with the cluster though but can't seem to pin-point the problem. When I go to either URL it will sometimes bring up the servlet web page but other times it will give an error of:
No Response from Application Web Server
Upon further investigation I noticed that the page would come up fine any time it tried to use the servlet on serverA but it seems that when it tries to use the servlet on serverB it returns the error. The problem is I am having a hard time verifying that serverB is causing problems or if it is something with the communication between the two servers. As far as I can tell in the Oracle EM it shows both OC4J containers running fine and all the other standard containers are running as well. Some testing that I have done is turning off the OC4J container on serverB. When I do this I stop getting any errors. Checking the opmn log for the containers doesn't give any information on the errors.
Has anyone had similar problems? Might someone know how to properly test / troubleshoot the problem to see where things are messing up? Anyone have a solution?
Thanks

Answer 1

This is the way it works in 903 as well.
There is a more general forum for 9iAS questions on this site, where other product managers who look after other areas of the product answer questions. It might be worth your while to post your question there and one of the PMs from the management team might be able to shed some light on the issue with respect to a future release.
-steve-