C H A P T E R 5
Persistent Sessions
So far, we have covered the basics about the HTTP protocol and how it’s used in a servlet container, like Tomcat. The HTTP protocol, like the Servlet API, has its foundations in the simple request/response mechanism. The state of the conversation between client and server is not maintained in such cases. In this chapter, we will see how the Java Servlet specification overcomes that challenge, and becomes stateful if required, using user sessions. In addition, we will learn how to configure Tomcat to store the session information for users accessing the site, so that it isn’t lost when the server crashes, for example.
In this chapter, we
- Discuss HTTP sessions servlet implementation and their uses
- Implement ...
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