Task overview: Managing HTTP sessions
Overview
IBM WAS provides a service for managing HTTP sessions: Session Manager.
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...
- 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.
Sessions
HTTP session migration
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 Wireless Application Protocol (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
Session management tuning
HTTP sessions: Resources for learning
Scheduled invalidation
Configure write contents
Configure write frequency
Base in-memory session pool size
Write operations
Tune parameter settings
Tune parameter custom settings
Best practices for using HTTP Sessions
HTTP session manager troubleshooting tips
HTTP session problems