Bea Weblogic persistence

nice, thanks for the post.

I've been noodling with this idea off & on for the last year without an environment to test in, looks like you may have nailed it.

Regarding optimization:

You probably want to take a look at this article Colin recently wrote about polymorphic operators (Click here) and replace some of them with the appropriate string operators where ever string-only comparisons take place.

And I agree with Colin on eliminating the regex ops as much as possible. While it seems like a trivial choice, (especially if you are as comfortable with regex as you obviously are), the cost of firing up the regex engine is apparently obscenely expensive in comparison with the alternatives, especially the iRules native comparison operators, so you might consider using them in place of your 2 "switch -regex's"

I'd replace:

switch -regexp $uri {         
         mainservlet {

with

switch -glob $uri {     
         *mainservlet* {

only if you need to match multiple URI's.

Otherwise use the even more efficient

if { $uri contains "mainservlet"} {

for a single test like this.

I'd also replace:

switch -regexp [HTTP::status] {     
         50[0-3]$ {

with

if { [HTTP::status] starts_with "50"} {

HTH

/deb