WAS v8.5 > End-to-end paths > Web applications

Tasks: Managing HTTP sessions

IBM WebSphere Application Server provides a service for managing HTTP sessions, Session Manager. The key activities for session management are summarized in this topic. Before beginning these steps, verify you are familiar with the programming model for accessing HTTP session support in the applications following the Servlet 3.0 API.

  1. Plan your session tracking approach for session management.
  2. Configure applications to use session support to maintain sessions on behalf of web applications.
  3. Assemble the application.
  4. Deploy the application.
  5. Ensure the administrator appropriately configures session management in the administrative domain.
  6. Adjust configuration settings and perform other tuning activities for optimal use of sessions in the environment.


Subtopics

  1. Sessions
  2. Develop session management in servlets
  3. Assemble so that session data can be shared
  4. Session security support
  5. Session management support
  6. Configure session management by level
  7. Session tracking options
  8. Configure session tracking
  9. Configure session tracking for WAP devices
  10. Distributed sessions
  11. Session recovery support
  12. Configure for database session persistence
  13. Session management tuning
  14. HTTP sessions: Resources for learning
  15. Scheduled invalidation
  16. Configure write contents
  17. Configure write frequency
  18. Base in-memory session pool size
  19. HTTP session invalidation
  20. Write operations
  21. Tune parameter settings
  22. Tune parameter custom settings
  23. Best practices for using HTTP sessions
  24. HTTP session manager troubleshooting tips
  25. HTTP session problems


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