This is strange. I did some work few months ago for my application to manage my sessions using a combination of HttpSessionActivationListener and HttpSessionListener (not going into the details here as to why I needed this). When I did that work HttpSessionActivationListener was working fine and both methods (sessionDidActivate and sessionWillPassivate) were being called back properly when tomcat was restarted.
Lately I am seeing that sessionDidActivate() does not get called upon tomcat restart, even though sessionWillPassivate() is called. Also even though sessionWillPassivate() is called, I don't see the session persistence file being created (the one that I specified in conf/context.xml <context><Manager pathname="xxx"> ). I also see a bug 48717 (https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48717) on this issue. Not sure what's its status is w.r.t. tomcat release 6.0.x. But the strange thing is that I am on the same version of Tomcat (6.0.20) where I did the initial work and everything was working properly. What could have caused this to break? Looking for suggestions whether upgrading to latest 6.0.x will help or is it something in my application that's breaking this functionality (given that it was working before). How can I debug this issue further? -Ajay
