I was wondering if anyone on this forum has experience of setting up WebSphe
re Portal in a geographically distributed environment. For example, I would 
like to set up one WPS site in USA and another in say Europe, and I cannot c
ount on there being 100% re
liable network connectivity between the two sites. Another point to keep in 
mind is that neither site is considered a slave site - both sites are in sim
ultaneous use and there is a load director in the front that decides what si
te a user is directed to (a
nd the load director uses geographical affinity).

One possible approach that I am considering would rely on using Oracle datab
ase replication procedures for the database piece, LDAP replication for user
/user group sync, and file system sync software for the file system. Does an
ybody see potential issues
with this approach?

Can you use WAS/WPS clustering with a database cluster where the clusters ar
e distributed geographically?

Looking forward to any insights in this issue.

Thanks-Vivek.

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