Database Session Persistence 1.0

This feature enables persistence of HTTP sessions to a datasource using JDBC. Persisting HTTP session data to a database allows recovery of the data after a server restart or unexpected server failure. Failover of HTTP sessions can be achieved by configuring multiple servers to persist data to the same location

Enable this feature

To enable the Database Session Persistence 1.0 feature, add the following element declaration into server.xml, inside the featureManager element:

<feature>sessionDatabase-1.0</feature>

Feature configuration elements

• authData
• classloading
• httpSession
• httpSessionDatabase
• transaction

Features that this feature enables

• jdbc-4.0
• jdbc-4.1
• jdbc-4.2
• jdbc-4.3
• jndi-1.0

Supported Java versions

• JavaSE-1.8
• JavaSE-11.0
• JavaSE-17.0
• JavaSE-21.0
• JavaSE-24.0

Develop a feature that depends on this feature

If we are developing a feature that depends on this feature, include the following item in the Subsystem-Content header in your feature manifest file.

com.ibm.websphere.appserver.sessionDatabase-1.0; type="osgi.subsystem.feature"