Siebel Portal Framework Guide > Integrating External Content > Portal Agent Administration >

Defining Web Applications

Web applications allow multiple symbolic URLs to send requests to the same Web application and share the same session. This is useful if you have two different applet controls that use symbolic URLs to submit requests to the same Web application. You can associate these symbolic URLs to a single Web application and specify whether they share the same session.

There might be cases in which you do not want requests to share the same session. For example, you might not want to share a session when a session cookie contains more information than the session ID, as this could result in unexpected behavior. When you define a Web application, you specify whether it shares sessions.

Web applications also allow you to define the Time Out value for the session time out feature. The Session Time Out feature is only applicable to symbolic URLs with a disposition type of Inline.

This task is a step in Process of Creating Portal Agents.

To define a Web application

1. Navigate to the Administration - Integration screen, and then WI Symbolic URL List.
2. From the drop-down menu, select Web Application Administration.
3. Enter a record and complete the fields.

   Some of the fields are described in the following table:

   Field	Description
   Shared	Indicates whether requests generated by symbolic URLs associated with this Web application share the same session.
   Time Out	Defines the time out parameter for the session management feature, which is only applicable to symbolic URLs with a disposition type of Inline.