you say that like it's trivial :)  if that was easy, we wouldn't need a sweet 
stateful web framework ....

ms

On Mar 8, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Anjo Krank wrote:

> Bah. You don't really need to store the pages. You only need to store how 
> they can be reconstructed...
> 
> Cheers, Anjo
> 
> 
> 
> Am 08.03.2010 um 18:07 schrieb Mike Schrag:
> 
>> Even within Apple, I would suspect that worked under VERY specific 
>> restrictions about what can be in your session at any point in time ... As 
>> soon as you start persisting the backtrack cache, it's going to get crazy 
>> complicated.
>> 
>> On Mar 8, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Pascal Robert wrote:
>> 
>>> So nobody outside Apple have been able to do this? :-(
>>> 
>>>> when you're done implementing persistent session, let me know ...
>>>> 
>>>> ms
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 8, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Johan Henselmans wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I store a persistent PDsession EO (not related to WOSession): if a user 
>>>>> is timed out in a WOSessions, the next time the user logs in, the 
>>>>> information from the PDsession is restored unless they explicitely close 
>>>>> it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The problem that occurs is that sometimes a user logs itself in twice, so 
>>>>> the information in the  PDsession is updated from two browsers.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So I have to prevent a user to log in twice.
>>>>> 
>>>>> An option I thought of was:
>>>>> -store a WOSessionID in thePDsession
>>>>> -when the user logs in, check if that session is still available in the 
>>>>> applications WOSessionStore.
>>>>> -if so, refuse login
>>>>> 
>>>>> Problem is that (as far as I know) applications do not share the 
>>>>> sessionID's so if there would be another WOApplicatiion that has the same 
>>>>> requirement, the user would still be able to login.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So I thought of changing the WOSessionStore to something persistent, 
>>>>> instead of residing it in memory, and let the applications that have to 
>>>>> make use of such a requirement (user can only login on specific 
>>>>> application) to store their sessions in a persistent place.
>>>>> 
>>>>> In noticed that way is also mentioned in:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/documentation/MacOSXServer/Reference/WO54_Reference/com/webobjects/appserver/WOSessionStore.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> "
>>>>> There is one subclass of WOSessionStore implemented for the developer's 
>>>>> convenience. A server WOSessionStore (the default) stores session state 
>>>>> in the server, in application memory. The serverSessionStore method 
>>>>> returns this WOSessionStore.
>>>>> 
>>>>> You can create a custom session store by making a subclass of 
>>>>> WOSessionStore. The subclass should properly implement the 
>>>>> saveSessionForContext andrestoreSessionWithID methods and should have a 
>>>>> public method that the application object can use to obtain an instance. 
>>>>> Some interesting session stores could be:
>>>>> 
>>>>>   • A database session store that stores session data in a database as 
>>>>> blobs, with the session ID as the primary key. This kind of 
>>>>> WOSessionStore can be shared by many instances of the same WebObjects 
>>>>> application, thus distributing the load (requests) among the instances.
>>>>>   • An adaptive session store that stores session state either in cookies 
>>>>> or on the server, depending on what the client supports.
>>>>> If you create your own WOSessionStore class that generates persistent 
>>>>> objects, you should implement an algorithm that cleans up session state 
>>>>> after the session is inactive for a long time. The server WOSessionStore 
>>>>> provided by WebObjects performs this clean-up properly, but the API is 
>>>>> not yet public.
>>>>> "
>>>>> 
>>>>> I also noticed that in the Developer Examples  There is the 
>>>>> WOSessionStoreExample Framework, that seems to implement something like 
>>>>> this.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does anybody have any experience with this technique, does it solve the 
>>>>> problem I am trying to tackle or is there another approach more 
>>>>> appropriate?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Johan Henselmans
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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