Sessions

WebSphere Application Server - Express for iSeries provides support for HTTP sessions as described by the Java Servlet Specification v2.3. HTTP is by design an stateless protocol. Session tracking attempts to associate HTTP requests originating from a particular client as belonging to a single HTTP session.

The following steps for session tracking are summarized:

1. Before you implement session tracking, become familiar with these topics about the sessions programming model:

   • Choose a session tracking method
     This topic describes the different session tracking methods.

   • Session security
     This topic describes security options for sessions, including HTTP authentication.

   • Best practices for session programming
     This topic describes some of the practices to optimize your session programming.

2. Create or modify your servlets to use session support to maintain sessions on behalf of your Web module. For more information, see Session programming model and environment.

3. Configure session management.

4. Assemble applications to share session data.

5. Tune session management.