Thin client connection balancing allows a group of application servers to evenly share presentation client connections between those servers, regardless of the application server initially configured for each presentation client.
Do not confuse thin client connection balancing with load balancing. Thin client connection balancing is strictly limited to ensuring that the number of connections to each application server in the group is approximately the same; no attempt is made to share any other resource usage load between the application servers.
A database environment can have multiple application server groups.
All application servers in a group must be equally visible to each presentation client that connects to members of that group.
Only the first connection from a presentation client can be redirected to another application server. A presentation client always directs subsequent connections for additional applications or reconnections to the application server that actually completed the first connection.
A system administrator can take advantage of this feature without having to reconfigure existing presentation clients.