Manage HTTP sessions
Overview
IBM WAS 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 2.4 API.
Procedure
- Plan your approach to session management, which could include session tracking and session recovery.
- Create or modify your own applications to use session support to maintain sessions on behalf of Web applications.
- Assemble your application.
- Deploy your application.
- Ensure the administrator appropriately configures session management in the administrative domain.
- Adjust configuration settings and perform other tuning activities for optimal use of sessions in your environment.
See also
Sessions
Migrate HTTP sessions
Develop session management in servlets
Assemble so that session data can be shared
Session security support
Session management support
Configure session management by level
Session tracking options
Configure session tracking
Configure session tracking for WAP devices
Distributed sessions
Session recovery support
Configure for database session persistence
Memory-to-memory replication
Memory-to-memory session partitioning
Clustered session support
Configure memory-to-memory replication for the peer-to-peer mode (default memory-to-memory replication)
Configure memory-to-memory replication for the client/server mode
Tune session management
Best practices for using HTTP Sessions
Manage HTTP sessions: Resources for learning
See Also
HTTP session manager troubleshooting tips
Problems creating or using HTTP sessions