Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere

Using servlets in complex applications introduces interesting challenges to the developer. Possibly the biggest challenge is to maintain the application state for users as they...

Before we begin to look at the specific support for session management that WebSphere and the servlet API provide, we will need to review some...

A framework for saving session state is provided in the Java servlet API. The API provides an interface designed specifically for the purpose of maintaining...

As mentioned earlier, the use of cookies provides the simplest approach for maintaining session identifiers. While it may be the easiest solution, it is not...

Up to now our discussions of session management have focused on an in-memory storage solution. When sessions are stored in memory, it is very quick...

In this chapter we have examined the basics of servlet session management—we've compared traditional approaches from the CGI world, and seen how WAS implements the...