You are experiencing valid behaviour, as Tomcat 4x will persist sessions
to disk. This is supposed to allow sessions to survive between server
restarts ( a desirable situation in most cases) When you clear out the
work directory, the sessions stored on disk are cleared.
There is a way to turn
gt; Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 7:36 PM
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> Subject: RE: Behaviour of JSP with tomcat 4.1.24
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> You are experiencing valid behaviour, as Tomcat 4x will
> persist sessions to disk. This is supposed to allow sessions
>
AFAIK, Tomcat saves sessions across restarts. One of the gurus may have
the specific answer as to how you can disable this, I believe it has
something to do with whether your session attributes are serializable or
not.
You can just clear out the work directory between restarts. My shutdown
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