Managing HTTP sessions

Why and when to perform this task

IBM WebSphere Application Server provides a service for managing HTTP sessions: Session Manager. The key activities for session management are summarized below.

Before you begin these steps, make sure you are familiar with the programming model for accessing HTTP session support in the applications following the Servlet 2.3 API.

Steps for this task

  1. Plan your approach to session management, which could include session tracking, session recovery, and session clustering.
  2. Create or modify your own applications to use session support to maintain sessions on behalf of Web applications.
  3. [Version 5.0.2 and later]Assemble your application.
  4. [5.0 only][Version 5.0.1]Assemble your application.
  5. Deploy your application.
  6. Ensure the administrator appropriately configures session management in the administrative domain.
  7. Adjust configuration settings and perform other tuning activities for optimal use of sessions in your environment.

Related concepts
Sessions
Session management support
Distributed sessions
Memory-to-memory replication
Memory-to-memory session partitions
Related reference
Session security support
Session tracking options
Session recovery support
Clustered session support
Best practices for using HTTP Sessions
HTTP session manager troubleshooting tips
Problems creating or using HTTP sessions
Managing HTTP sessions: Resources for learning:



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Last updated: Jun 21, 2007 8:07:48 PM CDT    WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation, Version 5.0.2
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