The BrokerAdminClient.setClientStateShareLimitById method can be used to set the state sharing limit of a Broker client with a specific client identifier. webMethods Broker allows Broker clients in different applications to share the same client state. Sharing client state allows several Broker clients, possibly running on different hosts, to handle events in a parallel, first-come, first-served basis. This provides both parallel processing and load balancing for event handling.

Broker clients sharing the same client state are treated as one Broker client with regard to the state they are sharing. Any changes to the event subscriptions or event queue, such as clearing the queue, will affect all of the clients sharing the state.

See the webMethods Broker Client Java API Programmer’s Guide for a thorough discussion of client state sharing.