Preface: Online banking cannot lack of load balancing solution today. However in terms of life cycle of operation system and software libaries , Java language development platform and on-demand custom fuctions. Does it bother the load balancing functions? The most challenging parts is the layer 7 load balancing. Perhaps you can do the healt check on appliation functions. However, it is difficult to garantee the non stop function on application side (availability).

Background: The load-balancing algorithms supported are round-robin, weighted least request, random, ring-hash and more. An additional function includes client non interrupt services using application & service availability (health-checks performance).

My focus: Online banking platform (Hong Kong)
Error 500: java.lang.RuntimeException: no EntityContext found in existing session
Date: Around 8:15 am 5/3/2022

Fundamentally, Web server load balancing function in correct way make no downtime. Therefore when you connected to web server had problem. The load balancing function will keep persistence (SSL Sticky) then redirect your connection to the web server which is available.
My experience operating in online banking system in today morning (3rd May, 2022) hints the technical information to me.
I encountered error my web services. (Reminded – it successful logged on and doing operations). However an error 500 display on my screen. Thereafter. even I close the browser, make new established connection to Banking system. It still redirect my new connection to e-banking1.hangseng.com. But in round robin setup architecture, I can connect to e-banking2.hangseng.com by chance.

Observation: Perhaps, load balancer capable web application health check function. But for online banking system, it do a health check on web server front page. On java server page. For example: The EntityContext interface contains the getEjbObject and getPrimaryKey methods that a bean can use to find out about the object it is associated with. The client communicates with the bean via the EJBObject. If one of the java service had error occur. May be the load balancer health check function not know what’s happening.

Whether there is concerns on vulnerable Java SE Embedded versions. So,  apply tight protection and causes this technical problem occurs. Or there is an software configuration problem in web application itself?