"Chen, Gin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > I have an application that I set the session timeout for. Well, true > to form, after the timeout period passes, any requests to objects within the > old session will result in nullpointerexceptions as that object no longer > exists. So now I want to handle timeouts more gracefully (give page > notifying that the timeout has occured blah blah blah). > My question is this, what is the standard way of doing this? > Currently, I'm using request.getSession( false ) and checking to see if it > returns null to me. Is that a good way to handle this? Or should I use a > check of the create time and/or getMaxInactiveInterval with > getLastAccessedTime?
You should use a check for null on request.getSession(false) because timeout is not the only thing that could cause a session to be destroyed. Nic ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
