Also remember that the failover map on the client is never guaranteed to exactly mirror the server side map. This is why we built in "server hopping", where if the client got the wrong server it wouuld just redirect to the correct server. In the most degenerate case, even if you choos a random server it would still redirect to the corrects server, so even if slightly inefficient would end up on the correct failover server eventually. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4002528#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...