Thanks Robert:
This is great information. I was curious if the beans in the timed-out session automatically get descoped and garbage-collected? thanks, Theron Robert Nocera <rnocera@neos To: Struts Users Mailing List llc.com> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: 03/20/02 Subject: RE: Questions about session timeouts/struts 09:52 AM Please respond to Struts Users Mailing List If the session times out or is invalidated, you will no longer be able to access the same session using request.getSession(). Any session you do access will be a new instance. This means that any objects in the session are probably not accessible to your application any longer. You can implement HttpSessionBindingListener on a bean that you store in session and then implement the valueUnbound method to do something when your bean is removed from the session. This worked for me in Tomcat and let me know when a session was being timed out, but I found that other application servers, such as SilverStream, do not behave the same way. The session times out, but the beans are not unbound and so the method is never called. From the spec I don't think invalidating a session requires beans to be unbound if it does, I think it is a bug in SilverStream's implementation. Hope this helps, Robert Nocera New England Open Solutions www.neosllc.com "You supply the Vision. We will do the rest." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:27 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Questions about session timeouts/struts Hi Folks: Don't really know much yet about this... I've implemented sensitive-form resubmissions by way of tokens within actions but have a question about when a session times out... Under Apache (I don't know where yet), I suspect there's a timer/variable in some configuration file that says how long a session bean is valid without any hits before it times out. I also think one can call explicity "request.getSession().invalidate()" which does the same thing but affects all session beans.... So here's my question(s): - Anyone have any advice on how to deal with this programatically? - When session beans do "timeout" or become "invalid", are they automatically cleaned up by the system? So in essance if I have a bean called "fooBean" that I added via (request.getSession().setAttribute ("fooBean", fooBeanInstance) AND if the session automatically times out (without me calling request.getSession().removeAttribute("fooBean")), does the tomcat contain remove "fooBean" from the session scope or will it still be there if I call "request.getSession().setAttribute("fooBean")".... I'd like to understand a little bit more on how best to handle/deal with situations where the session becomes invalid() or times out. What happens to all the beans/data contained for that session. With struts, do all formbeans with session scope become defunct? thanks, Theron -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: < mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: < mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>