Required Reading - WebSphere Application Server V7: Session Management

Session support allows a Web application developer to maintain state information across multiple user visits to the application. In this IBM® Redpaper™ publication, we discuss HTTP session support in WebSphere® Application Server V7 and how to configure it. We also discuss the support for stateful session bean failover.

This paper is the stand-alone version of chapter 12 of WebSphere Application Server V7 Administration and Configuration Guide, SG24-7615.

Table of contents

• HTTP session management
• Session manager configuration
• Session identifiers
• Local sessions
• General properties for session management
• Session affinity
• Persistent session management
• Invalidating sessions
• Session security
• Session performance considerations
• Stateful session bean failover

WebSphere Application Server V7: Session Management