[flexcoders] sessions and maintenance questions

[Robert Brueckmann]

I have a question for you guys about how you’re currently designing your Flex applications.   Since a Flex application is not session-based in the sense of an application server session, how are you guys handling, say, you want a user to have to log back in if they remain inactive after 5 hours in the case of using remote objects?  You’re not making actual HTTP requests in that case…are you still storing variables in the application server session upon start of a client’s session and checking the status of those variables every time a remote method call is made?  Do you have some sort of filter that filters every remote method call to check every time?  What about if the application server needs to be restarted in the middle of the day…granted the client doesn’t have any knowledge of this, do you just allow them to keep going without having to log back in or do you force them to log back in and if this is the case, how does the client application become away of such a change and the need for the user to have to log back in?  What are you using to flag that status change in the case of remote objects?   Also…we want to have weekly and possibly, daily database maintenance periods…say from 2 am to 3 am.  If, for some reason, one of our clients is logged into the site at that ungodly hour, right before they start performing maintenance, and has successfully logged in and started using out site, then the user tries to execute some action during the maintenance period, we want to throw them a little message saying the site is currently undergoing maintenance, and to try again later, and then forward the user to a maintenance page, the same maintenance page any other client would see if they came to our URL DURING the actual maintenance going on.  What would be the best way to handle this?  Change a variable in web.xml and restart the application server?  I use remote objects for everything I do within the application, if I changed some variable in the web.xml file, that means I’d have to add code to every single method in all of my delegate classes to check the status of this variable every time a call is made before continuing on with the actual method call.  Is there a more elegant way of doing this?  Much like a servlet filter works?   Any help is greatly appreciated,   robert l. brueckmann senior web developer merlin securities 595 madison avenue new york, ny 10022 p: 212.822.4821 f: 212.822.4820     This message contains information from Merlin Securities, LLC, or from one of its affiliates, that may be confidential and privileged. If you are not an intended recipient, please refrain from any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this information and note that such actions are prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or by replying to this transmission.   Merlin Securities, LLC is a registered broker-dealer. Services offered through Merlin Securities, LLC are not insured by the FDIC or any other Federal Government Agency, are not deposits of or guaranteed by Merlin Securities, LLC and may lose value. Nothing in this communication shall constitute a solicitation or recommendation to buy or sell a particular security. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.