To instantiate a load-balancer, the API currently relies on the copy() method in the Bundler and LoadBalancingProfile interfaces. It doesn't make sense since the JPPFBundlerProvider interface already provides methods to create a Bundler and a LoadBalancingProfile. Consequently, I propose to deprecate the copy() methods in v5.2 and remove them altogether in v6.0, update the server and client code to create new bundlers from the declared providers and update the documentation accordingly.

Also, context-aware load-balancers are not documented, we should remedy. We should also provide access to more information in the JPPFContext for context-aware load-balancers, for instance:

• whether this is a client-side or server-side context/load-balancer, like with isInClient() and isInServer() methods
• access to the JPPFClient from the JPPFContextClient instance. For this we should take care of possible classloading issues, since JPPFClient and JPPFContextClient are not in the classpath of the server.