Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 4 Developer's Guide to Java Web Applications

Properties

The following table describes properties for the session-properties element.

Table A–17 session-properties Properties

Property Name 

Default Value 

Description 

timeoutSeconds

600

Specifies the default maximum inactive interval (in seconds) for all sessions created in this web application. If set to 0 session expires immediately.

If a session-timeout element is specified in the web.xml file, the session-timeout value overrides any timeoutSeconds value. If neither session-timeout nor timeoutSeconds is specified, the timeoutSeconds default is used.

Note that the session-timeout element in web.xml is specified in minutes, not seconds.

enableCookies

true

Uses cookies for session tracking if set to true.

enableURLRewriting

true

Enables URL rewriting. This provides session tracking via URL rewriting when the browser does not accept cookies. You must also use an encodeURL or encodeRedirectURL call in the servlet or JSP.