<div dir="ltr">Hi<div><br></div><div>I have been doing some reading on the wiki regarding High Availability for Shibboleth IDP and the recommended solution seems to be Terracota however having never worked with Terracota before I have a few questions:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Going on Terracota's website they seems to have layed down the open source version of Terracota and now have 2 different products which seems to do the same thing, BigMemory Max and BigMemory Go. It is a bit unclear to me which one is the one to be used with Shibboleth, the (now discontinued) open source product or any of the bigmemory ones?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Upon my researching I have stumbled upon some information which indicates there may be issues with using Terracota with JDK 7 (Whichever one is recommended by Shibboleth), is that true?</div><div><br></div>
<div>At the moment I am using a Jetty server for my tests however I am thinking of setting up a jboss solution with a load balancer in front of it so I was also wondering about the possibility of a stateless solution to make things simpler since it seems to suit my needs (going from the info in the wiki) with a cookie as done by the Ohio State login handler however I dont quite understand the concept. Am I correct that basically a cookie is created upon login which can be validated by any node, independently, with enough information to securely say that the user is who he says he is? Does such cookie replace the session cookie (_idp_session) usually used by Shibboleth?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Alexandre</div></div>