Oops, i really misread the documentation, thinking it will never use session to provide that feature. Thank you for the pointers !
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Pid <p...@pidster.com> wrote: > On 13/06/2012 13:13, Pid * wrote: >> On 12 Jun 2012, at 18:17, Albert Kam <moonblade.w...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all ! >>> >>> Is it possible to do POST submit to the tomcat-A, redirect happens, >>> and then GET to the same tomcat-A again in a tomcat cluster ? >>> And, in hope to make things easier, all the tomcat servers in the >>> cluster are stateless wihout any sessions >> >> You contradict this statement below by saying it does use s > > (Oops. Fat finger + touch screen...) > > You contradict this statement below by saying it does use sessions, > below. Just because you are not directly using a session, it does not > mean that a framework isn't doing so behind the scenes. > > If there's no need to replicate sessions, you can still use the > sticky-session mechanism to pin a session to a node. > > See server.xml, Engine.jvmRoute in the docs. > > > p > > >>> This needs arise because each tomcat servers will have it's own spring >>> context (a kind of state, but not a per-user-session), >>> and i am making use of flash attribute feature detailed in here : >>> http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/spring-framework-reference/html/mvc.html#mvc-flash-attributes >>> >>> Here are the relevant quotes from the page : >>> >>> Flash attributes provide a way for one request to store attributes >>> intended for use in another. This is most commonly needed when >>> redirecting — for example, the Post/Redirect/Get pattern. Flash >>> attributes are saved temporarily before the redirect (typically in the >>> session) to be made available to the request after the redirect and >>> removed immediately. >>> >>> Flash attribute support is always "on" and does not need to enabled >>> explicitly although if not used, it never causes HTTP session >>> creation. On each request there is an "input" FlashMap with attributes >>> passed from a previous request (if any) and an "output" FlashMap with >>> attributes to save for a subsequent request. Both FlashMap instances >>> are accessible from anywhere in Spring MVC through static methods in >>> RequestContextUtils. >>> >>> -- >>> Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. >>> The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. >>> Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now, >>> the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. >>> (Thich Nhat Hanh) >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >>> > > > -- > > [key:62590808] > -- Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. (Thich Nhat Hanh) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
