Is there a simple Load Balancer app for development environment on Windows?

Is there a simple Load Balancer app for development environment on Windows?

Does there exist a simple Load Balancer app for development on Windows? I am running a pair of JBoss 5.x instances in a cluster on a single machine. Normally , this configuration is load balanced by a nice hardware load balancer but I am wondering if there is a simple piece of software to enable load balancing in my Eclipse dev environment.

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Guest [Entry]

You could use Apache HTTP Server with the mod_proxy_balancer module.

Guest [Entry]

"Instead of load balancing between ports, why not bind each instance to a specific loopback IP address. The whole 127.0.0.0/8 network is loopback (not just 127.0.0.1). If you configure your processes to bind to 127.0.0.2 and 127.0.0.3 (or whatever you want) then you can do IP round robin. This can be done with DNS if you wish.

You could also write a wrapper that binds to an IP/port and will randomly forward the connection to one of the servers, and just pass the data through."