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Re: SessionObjects
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Zvi wrote:
> William Swaney wrote:
>
> > Falko Braeutigam wrote:
> > >
> > > Rajeev, please send such questions to the list.
> >
> > Yes, because there just might be some Servlet experts here;)
> >
> > > On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Rajeev Pillai wrote:
> > > > Yes we need to store HTTP session object inside Ozone.
> > > > We are trying to store the session object with
> > > > sessionID (a string) as the key and all the user info.
> > > >
> > > > as the Session Object.
> > > >
> > > > We are using SessionObjects as we did not want to
> > > > send all user related info. through the URL string.
> > > > Therefore for each user there is a Session Object
> > > > created which has a unique SessionID which is now
> > > > being
> > > > passed on the URL string. Now, we want to get the same
> > > > user info. using the SessionID from the
> > > > URL string.
> > > Hmmm.. probably I lost something and I'm by no means an Servlet expert but as
> > > far as I understand the Servlet engine does the session handling for you. So,
> > > something like:
> > >
> > > HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
> > > OzoneStoredUserInfo uinfo = session.getValue("sessiontest.userInfo")
> >
> > Just don't forget to cast the object returned by
> > session.getValue(String), in this case to OzoneStoredUserInfo. But
> > other than that, Falko is right, it is the servlet engine's
> > responsibility to handle sessions. However, the question arises, do you
> > want to persist your session objects?
>
> You need persistent session objects in case you want to implement load balancing
> between multiple JVMs and your servlet engine doesn't support it out of the box.
Wow! If anybody is actually working on such cool stuff I would be very
interested in learning more about ;)
Falko
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