Task overview: Managing HTTP sessions

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

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.

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.
Configure session management in the administrative domain. See Configuring session management by level for more information.
Adjust configuration settings and perform other tuning activities for optimal use of sessions in your environment. See Tuning session management and Configure session management by level in the Administration topic for more information.

Sub-topics
Sessions
Migrate HTTP sessions
Developing session management in servlets
Assembling so that session data can be shared
Session security support
Session management support
Configure session management by level in the Administration topic
Session tracking options
Configure session tracking in the Administration topic
Configuring session tracking for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) devices
Distributed sessions
Session recovery support
Configure for database session persistence in the Administration topic
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) in the Administration topic
Configure memory-to-memory replication for the client/server mode in the Administration topic
Tuning session management
Best practices for using HTTP Sessions
Managing HTTP sessions: Resources for learning

Related reference
Troubleshooting and support in the Troubleshooting topic