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Because the object storage data is often large and very network intensive, we do not want the data to actually flow through the CloudStack box as it would introduce a huge bottleneck.  Because of this, there is no Java component of this implementation in CloudStack.  Instead, the traffic is routed to Swift or CloudStack, based on the url structure, by a load balancer which sits in front of the two services.  The technology used for load balancing (and ssl termination) is not important, but to illustrate the concept, I used HAproxy and Pound for these tasks.

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