Session Managers

The Simple Session Manager and JDBC Session Manager that were deprecated in the version 6.0 release of Sun Java System Web Server are not supported in the 6.1 release.

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 provides the following session management options:

• StandardManager, the default session manager

• PersistentManager, a provided session manager that uses a persistent data store

• IWSSessionManager, a provided session manager that allows backward compatibility with any custom session managers you may have created using Sun Java System Web Server 6.0.

• MMapSessionManager (UNIX Only), a provided persistent memory map (mmap) file based session manager that works in both single process and multi-process mode

  The following API functions of the Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 session manager API are not implemented in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1:

  • Form-based logins: Form-based login for single sign on is not supported. The following are therefore deprecated:

    • GetHandleFormLoginSession

    • SetHandleFormLoginSession

      The update method. The update method which followed a call to the HttpRequest methods, inputstream, in version 6.0 of the Web server is now deprecated.

  • Session manager monitoring mechanism: Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 does not provide support for monitoring session manager statistics. The following are therefore deprecated:

    • getContext

    • getMaxSession

    • getSessionCount

    • getSessionReapCount

• SimpleSessionManager and JdbcSessionManager. Web Server 6.0 provided deprecated support to the SimpleSessionManager and JdbcSessionManager options, and implemented the same functionality through iWSSessionManager and JdbcStore, respectively. The SimpleSessionManager and JdbcSessionManager options are not supported in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1.

  For more information about Session Managers, see the Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP12 Programmer’s Guide to Web Applications.