| [66] | 1 | <html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><title>Apache Tomcat Configuration Reference - The Manager Component</title><meta value="Craig R. McClanahan" name="author"><meta value="craigmcc@apache.org" name="email"><meta value="Yoav Shapira" name="author"><meta value="yoavs@apache.org" name="email"></head><body vlink="#525D76" alink="#525D76" link="#525D76" text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><table cellspacing="0" width="100%" border="0"><!--PAGE HEADER--><tr><td><!--PROJECT LOGO--><a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/"><img border="0" alt=" | 
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 | 4 |  | 
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 | 5 |   <p>The <strong>Manager</strong> element represents the <em>session | 
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 | 6 |   manager</em> that will be used to create and maintain HTTP sessions | 
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 | 7 |   as requested by the associated web application.</p> | 
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 | 8 |  | 
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 | 9 |   <p>A Manager element MAY be nested inside a | 
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 | 10 |   <a href="context.html">Context</a> component.  If it is not included, | 
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 | 11 |   a default Manager configuration will be created automatically, which | 
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 | 12 |   is sufficient for most requirements.</p> | 
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 | 13 |  | 
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 | 14 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Attributes"><strong>Attributes</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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 | 15 |  | 
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 | 16 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Common Attributes"><strong>Common Attributes</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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 | 17 |  | 
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 | 18 |     <p>All implementations of <strong>Manager</strong> | 
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 | 19 |     support the following attributes:</p> | 
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 | 20 |  | 
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 | 21 |     <table cellpadding="5" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#023264" width="15%"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th bgcolor="#023264" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>className</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 22 |         <p>Java class name of the implementation to use.  This class must | 
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 | 23 |         implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.Manager</code> interface. | 
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 | 24 |         If not specified, the standard value (defined below) will be used.</p> | 
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 | 25 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>distributable</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 26 |         <p>Set to <code>true</code> to ask the session manager to enforce | 
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 | 27 |         the restrictions described in the Servlet Specification on | 
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 | 28 |         distributable applications (primarily, this would mean that all | 
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 | 29 |         session attributes must implement <code>java.io.Serializable</code>). | 
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 | 30 |         Set to <code>false</code> (the default) to not enforce these | 
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 | 31 |         restrictions.</p> | 
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 | 32 |  | 
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 | 33 |         <p><strong>NOTE</strong> - The value for this property is inherited | 
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 | 34 |         automatically based on the presence or absence of the | 
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 | 35 |         <code><distributable></code> element in the web application | 
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 | 36 |         deployment descriptor (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>).</p> | 
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 | 37 |       </td></tr></table> | 
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 | 38 |  | 
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 | 39 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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 | 40 |  | 
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 | 41 |  | 
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 | 42 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Standard Implementation"><strong>Standard Implementation</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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 | 43 |  | 
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 | 44 |     <p>Tomcat provides two standard implementations of <strong>Manager</strong> | 
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 | 45 |     for use - the default one stores active sessions, while the optional one | 
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 | 46 |     stores active sessions that have been swapped out (in addition to saving | 
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 | 47 |     sessions across a restart of Tomcat) in a storage location that is selected | 
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 | 48 |     via the use of an appropriate <strong>Store</strong> nested element.</p> | 
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 | 49 |  | 
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 | 50 |     <h3>Standard Manager Implementation</h3> | 
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 | 51 |  | 
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 | 52 |     <p>The standard implementation of <strong>Manager</strong> is | 
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 | 53 |     <strong>org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager</strong>. | 
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 | 54 |     It supports the following additional attributes (in addition to the | 
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 | 55 |     common attributes listed above):</p> | 
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 | 56 |  | 
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 | 57 |     <table cellpadding="5" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#023264" width="15%"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th bgcolor="#023264" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>algorithm</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 58 |         <p>Name of the <em>Message Digest</em> algorithm used to calculate | 
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 | 59 |         session identifiers produced by this Manager.  This value must | 
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 | 60 |         be supported by the <code>java.security.MessageDigest</code> class. | 
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 | 61 |         If not specified, the default value is "MD5".</p> | 
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 | 62 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>entropy</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 63 |         <p>A String value that is utilized when seeding the random number | 
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 | 64 |         generator used to create session identifiers for this Manager. | 
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 | 65 |         If not specified, a semi-useful value is calculated, but a long | 
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 | 66 |         String value should be specified in security-conscious | 
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 | 67 |         environments.</p> | 
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 | 68 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>maxActiveSessions</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 69 |         <p>The maximum number of active sessions that will be created by | 
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 | 70 |         this Manager, or -1 (the default) for no limit.</p> | 
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 | 71 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>maxInactiveInterval</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 72 |         <p>The initial maximum time interval, in seconds,  | 
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 | 73 |         between client requests before a session is invalidated. A negative value | 
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 | 74 |         will result in sessions never timing out. If the attribute is not provided, | 
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 | 75 |         a default of 60 seconds is used.</p> | 
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 | 76 |          | 
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 | 77 |         <p>This attribute provides the initial value whenever a  | 
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 | 78 |         new session is created, but the interval may be dynamically  | 
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 | 79 |         varied by a servlet via the  | 
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 | 80 |         <code>setMaxInactiveInterval</code> method of the <code>HttpSession</code> object.</p> | 
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 | 81 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>pathname</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 82 |         <p>Absolute or relative (to the work directory for this Context) | 
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 | 83 |         pathname of the file in which session state will be preserved | 
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 | 84 |         across application restarts, if possible.  The default is | 
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 | 85 |         "SESSIONS.ser".  See <a href="#Restart Persistence">Restart | 
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 | 86 |         Persistence</a> for more information. Restart persistence may be  | 
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 | 87 |         disabled by setting this attribute to an empty string.</p> | 
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 | 88 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>processExpiresFrequency</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 89 |         <p>Frequency of the session expiration, and related manager operations. | 
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 | 90 |         Manager operations will be done once for the specified amount of | 
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 | 91 |         backgrondProcess calls (ie, the lower the amount, the more often the | 
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 | 92 |         checks will occur). The minimum value is 1, and the default value is 6. | 
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 | 93 |         </p> | 
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 | 94 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>randomClass</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 95 |         <p>Java class name of the <code>java.util.Random</code> | 
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 | 96 |         implementation class to use.  If not specified, the default value is | 
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 | 97 |         <code>java.security.SecureRandom</code>.</p> | 
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 | 98 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>sessionIdLength</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 99 |        <p>The length of session ids created by this Manager, excluding any | 
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 | 100 |         JVM route information used for load balancing.  | 
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 | 101 |         The default is 16.</p> | 
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 | 102 |       </td></tr></table> | 
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 | 103 |  | 
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 | 104 |     <h3>Persistent Manager Implementation</h3> | 
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 | 105 |  | 
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 | 106 |     <p><em><strong>WARNING - Use of this Manager implementation | 
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 | 107 |     has not been thoroughly tested, and should be considered experimental! | 
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 | 108 |     </strong></em></p> | 
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 | 109 |  | 
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 | 110 |     <p>The persistent implementation of <strong>Manager</strong> is | 
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 | 111 |     <strong>org.apache.catalina.session.PersistentManager</strong>.  In | 
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 | 112 |     addition to the usual operations of creating and deleting sessions, a | 
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 | 113 |     <code>PersistentManager</code> has the capability to swap active (but | 
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 | 114 |     idle) sessions out to a persistent storage mechanism, as well as to save | 
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 | 115 |     all sessions across a normal restart of Tomcat.  The actual persistent | 
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 | 116 |     storage mechanism used is selected by your choice of a | 
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 | 117 |     <strong>Store</strong> element nested inside the <strong>Manager</strong> | 
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 | 118 |     element - this is required for use of <code>PersistentManager</code>.</p> | 
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 | 119 |  | 
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 | 120 |     <p>This implementation of Manager supports the following attributes in | 
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 | 121 |     addition to the <a href="#Common Attributes">Common Attributes</a> | 
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 | 122 |     described earlier.</p> | 
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 | 123 |  | 
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 | 124 |     <table cellpadding="5" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#023264" width="15%"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th bgcolor="#023264" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>algorithm</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 125 |         <p>Name of the <em>Message Digest</em> algorithm used to calculate | 
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 | 126 |         session identifiers produced by this Manager.  This value must | 
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 | 127 |         be supported by the <code>java.security.MessageDigest</code> class. | 
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 | 128 |         If not specified, the default value is "MD5".</p> | 
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 | 129 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>className</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 130 |         <p>Java class name of the implementation to use.  This class must | 
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 | 131 |         implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.Manager</code> interface. | 
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 | 132 |         You <strong>must</strong> specify | 
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 | 133 |         <code>org.apache.catalina.session.PersistentManager</code> to use | 
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 | 134 |         this manager implementation.</p> | 
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 | 135 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>entropy</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 136 |         <p>A String value that is utilized when seeding the random number | 
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 | 137 |         generator used to create session identifiers for this Manager. | 
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 | 138 |         If not specified, a semi-useful value is calculated, but a long | 
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 | 139 |         String value should be specified in security-conscious | 
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 | 140 |         environments.</p> | 
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 | 141 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>maxActiveSessions</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 142 |         <p>The maximum number of active sessions that will be created by | 
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 | 143 |         this Manager, or -1 (the default) for no limit.</p> | 
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 | 144 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>maxIdleBackup</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 145 |         <p>The time interval (in seconds) since the last access to a session | 
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 | 146 |         before it is eligible for being persisted to the session store, or | 
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 | 147 |         <code>-1</code> to disable this feature.  By default, this feature is | 
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 | 148 |         disabled.</p> | 
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 | 149 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>maxIdleSwap</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 150 |         <p>The time interval (in seconds) since the last access to a session | 
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 | 151 |         before it should be persisted to the session store, and | 
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 | 152 |         passivated out of the server's memory, or <code>-1</code> to disable | 
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 | 153 |         this feature.  If this feature is enabled, the time interval specified | 
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 | 154 |         here should be equal to or longer than the value specified for | 
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 | 155 |         <code>maxIdleBackup</code>.  By default, this feature is disabled.</p> | 
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 | 156 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>minIdleSwap</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 157 |         <p>The time interval (in seconds) since the last access to a session | 
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 | 158 |         before it will be eligible to be persisted to the session store, and | 
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 | 159 |         passivated out of the server's memory, or <code>-1</code> for this | 
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 | 160 |         swapping to be available at any time.  If specified, this value should | 
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 | 161 |         be less than that specified by <code>maxIdleSwap</code>.  By default, | 
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 | 162 |         this value is set to <code>-1</code>.</p> | 
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 | 163 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>maxInactiveInterval</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 164 |         <p>The initial maximum time interval, in seconds,  | 
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 | 165 |         between client requests before a session is invalidated. A negative value | 
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 | 166 |         will result in sessions never timing out. If the attribute is not provided, | 
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 | 167 |         a default of 60 seconds is used.</p> | 
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 | 168 |          | 
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 | 169 |         <p>This attribute provides the initial value whenever a  | 
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 | 170 |         new session is created, but the interval may be dynamically  | 
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 | 171 |         varied by a servlet via the  | 
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 | 172 |         <code>setMaxInactiveInterval</code>method of the <code>HttpSession</code> object.</p> | 
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 | 173 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>randomClass</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 174 |         <p>Java class name of the <code>java.util.Random</code> | 
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 | 175 |         implementation class to use.  If not specified, the default value is | 
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 | 176 |         <code>java.security.SecureRandom</code>.</p> | 
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 | 177 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>saveOnRestart</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 178 |         <p>Should all sessions be persisted and reloaded when Tomcat is shut | 
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 | 179 |         down and restarted (or when this application is reloaded)?  By default, | 
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 | 180 |         this attribute is set to <code>true</code>.</p> | 
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 | 181 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>sessionIdLength</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 182 |         <p>The length of session ids created by this Manager, excluding any | 
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 | 183 |         JVM route information used for load balancing.  | 
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 | 184 |         The default is 16.</p> | 
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 | 185 |       </td></tr></table> | 
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 | 186 |  | 
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 | 187 |     <p>In order to successfully use a PersistentManager, you must nest inside | 
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 | 188 |     it a <strong><Store></strong> element, as described below.</p> | 
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 | 189 |  | 
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 | 190 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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 | 191 |  | 
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 | 192 |  | 
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 | 193 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Nested Components"><strong>Nested Components</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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 | 194 |  | 
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 | 195 |   <h3>Standard Manager Implementation</h3> | 
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 | 196 |  | 
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 | 197 |   <p>If you are using the <em>Standard Manager Implementation</em> | 
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 | 198 |   as described above, no elements may be nested inside your | 
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 | 199 |   <strong><Manager></strong> element.</p> | 
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 | 200 |  | 
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 | 201 |   <h3>Persistent Manager Implementation</h3> | 
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 | 202 |  | 
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 | 203 |   <p>If you are using the <em>Persistent Manager Implementation</em> | 
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 | 204 |   as described above, you <strong>MUST</strong> nest a | 
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 | 205 |   <strong><Store></strong> element inside, which defines the | 
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 | 206 |   characteristics of the persistent data storage.  Two implementations | 
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 | 207 |   of the <code><Store></code> element are currently available, | 
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 | 208 |   with different characteristics, as described belowl</p> | 
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 | 209 |  | 
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 | 210 |   <h5>File Based Store</h5> | 
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 | 211 |  | 
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 | 212 |   <p>The <em>File Based Store</em> implementation saves swapped out | 
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 | 213 |   sessions in individual files (named based on the session identifier) | 
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 | 214 |   in a configurable directory.  Therefore, you are likely to encounter | 
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 | 215 |   scalability problems as the number of active sessions increases, and | 
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 | 216 |   this should primarily be considered a means to easily experiment.</p> | 
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 | 217 |  | 
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 | 218 |   <p>To configure this, add a <code><Store></code> nested inside | 
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 | 219 |   your <code><Manager></code> element with the following attributes: | 
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 | 220 |   </p> | 
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 | 221 |  | 
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 | 222 |   <table cellpadding="5" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#023264" width="15%"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th bgcolor="#023264" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>checkInterval</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 223 |       <p>The interval (in seconds) between checks for expired sessions | 
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 | 224 |       among those sessions that are currently swapped out.  By default, | 
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 | 225 |       this interval is set to 60 seconds (one minute).</p> | 
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 | 226 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>className</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 227 |       <p>Java class name of the implementation to use.  This class must | 
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 | 228 |       implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.Store</code> interface.  You | 
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 | 229 |       <strong>must</strong> specify | 
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 | 230 |       <code>org.apache.catalina.session.FileStore</code> | 
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 | 231 |       to use this implementation.</p> | 
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 | 232 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>directory</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 233 |       <p>Absolute or relative (to the temporary work directory for this web | 
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 | 234 |       application) pathname of the directory into which individual session | 
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 | 235 |       files are written.  If not specified, the temporary work directory | 
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 | 236 |       assigned by the container is utilized.</p> | 
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 | 237 |     </td></tr></table> | 
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 | 238 |  | 
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 | 239 |  | 
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 | 240 |   <h5>JDBC Based Store</h5> | 
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 | 241 |  | 
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 | 242 |   <p>The <em>JDBC Based Store</em> implementation saves swapped out | 
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 | 243 |   sessions in individual rows of a preconfigured table in a database | 
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 | 244 |   that is accessed via a JDBC driver.  With large numbers of swapped out | 
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 | 245 |   sessions, this implementation will exhibit improved performance over | 
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 | 246 |   the File Based Store described above.</p> | 
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 | 247 |  | 
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 | 248 |   <p>To configure this, add a <code><Store></code> nested inside | 
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 | 249 |   your <code><Manager></code> element with the following attributes: | 
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 | 250 |   </p> | 
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 | 251 |  | 
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 | 252 |   <table cellpadding="5" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#023264" width="15%"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th bgcolor="#023264" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>checkInterval</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 253 |       <p>The interval (in seconds) between checks for expired sessions | 
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 | 254 |       among those sessions that are currently swapped out.  By default, | 
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 | 255 |       this interval is set to 60 seconds (one minute).</p> | 
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 | 256 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>className</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 257 |       <p>Java class name of the implementation to use.  This class must | 
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 | 258 |       implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.Store</code> interface.  You | 
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 | 259 |       <strong>must</strong> specify | 
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 | 260 |       <code>org.apache.catalina.session.JDBCStore</code> | 
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 | 261 |       to use this implementation.</p> | 
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 | 262 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>connectionURL</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 263 |       <p>The connection URL that will be handed to the configured JDBC | 
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 | 264 |       driver to establish a connection to the database containing our | 
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 | 265 |       session table.</p> | 
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 | 266 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>driverName</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 267 |       <p>Java class name of the JDBC driver to be used.</p> | 
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 | 268 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>sessionAppCol</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 269 |       <p>Name of the database column, contained in the specified session | 
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 | 270 |       table, that contains the Engine, Host, and Web Application Context | 
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 | 271 |       name in the format <code>/Engine/Host/Context</code>.</p> | 
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 | 272 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>sessionDataCol</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 273 |       <p>Name of the database column, contained in the specified | 
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 | 274 |       session table, that contains the serialized form of all session | 
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 | 275 |       attributes for a swapped out session.  The column type must accept | 
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 | 276 |       a binary object (typically called a BLOB).</p> | 
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 | 277 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>sessionIdCol</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 278 |       <p>Name of the database column, contained in the specified | 
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 | 279 |       session table, that contains the session identifier of the | 
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 | 280 |       swapped out session.  The column type must accept character | 
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 | 281 |       string data of at least as many characters as are contained | 
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 | 282 |       in session identifiers created by Tomcat (typically 32).</p> | 
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 | 283 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>sessionLastAccessedCol</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 284 |       <p>Name of the database column, contained in the specified | 
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 | 285 |       session table, that contains the <code>lastAccessedTime</code> | 
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 | 286 |       property of this session.  The column type must accept a | 
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 | 287 |       Java <code>long</code> (64 bits).</p> | 
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 | 288 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>sessionMaxInactiveCol</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 289 |       <p>Name of the database column, contained in the specified | 
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 | 290 |       session table, that contains the <code>maxInactiveInterval</code> | 
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 | 291 |       property of this session.  The column type must accept a | 
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 | 292 |       Java <code>integer</code> (32 bits).</p> | 
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 | 293 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>sessionTable</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 294 |       <p>Name of the database table to be used for storing swapped out | 
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 | 295 |       sessions.  This table must contain (at least) the database columns | 
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 | 296 |       that are configured by the other attributes of this element.</p> | 
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 | 297 |     </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>sessionValidCol</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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 | 298 |       <p>Name of the database column, contained in the specified | 
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 | 299 |       session table, that contains a flag indicating whether this | 
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 | 300 |       swapped out session is still valid or not.  The column type | 
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 | 301 |       must accept a single character.</p> | 
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 | 302 |     </td></tr></table> | 
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 | 303 |  | 
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 | 304 |   <p>Before attempting to use the JDBC Based Store for the first time, | 
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 | 305 |   you must create the table that will be used to store swapped out sessions. | 
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 | 306 |   Detailed SQL commands vary depending on the database you are using, but | 
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 | 307 |   a script like this will generally be required:</p> | 
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 | 308 |  | 
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 | 309 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> | 
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 | 310 | create table tomcat_sessions ( | 
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 | 311 |   session_id     varchar(100) not null primary key, | 
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 | 312 |   valid_session  char(1) not null, | 
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 | 313 |   max_inactive   int not null, | 
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 | 314 |   last_access    bigint not null, | 
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 | 315 |   app_name       varchar(255), | 
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 | 316 |   session_data   mediumblob, | 
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 | 317 |   KEY kapp_name(app_name) | 
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 | 318 | ); | 
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 | 319 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> | 
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 | 320 |  | 
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 | 321 |   <p>In order for the JDBC Based Store to successfully connect to your | 
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 | 322 |   database, the JDBC driver you configure must be visible to Tomcat's | 
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 | 323 |   internal class loader.  Generally, that means you must place the JAR | 
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 | 324 |   file containing this driver into the <code>$CATALINA_HOME/lib</code> | 
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 | 325 |   directory.</p> | 
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 | 326 |  | 
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 | 327 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Special Features"><strong>Special Features</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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 | 328 |  | 
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 | 329 |  | 
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 | 330 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Restart Persistence"><strong>Restart Persistence</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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 | 331 |  | 
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 | 332 |     <p>Whenver Catalina is shut down normally and restarted, or when an | 
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 | 333 |     application reload is triggered, the standard Manager implementation | 
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 | 334 |     will attempt to serialize all currently active sessions to a disk | 
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 | 335 |     file located via the <code>pathname</code> attribute.  All such saved | 
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 | 336 |     sessions will then be deserialized and activated (assuming they have | 
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 | 337 |     not expired in the mean time) when the application reload is completed.</p> | 
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 | 338 |  | 
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 | 339 |     <p>In order to successfully restore the state of session attributes, | 
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 | 340 |     all such attributes MUST implement the <code>java.io.Serializable</code> | 
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 | 341 |     interface.  You MAY cause the Manager to enforce this restriction by | 
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 | 342 |     including the <code><distributable></code> element in your web | 
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 | 343 |     application deployment descriptor (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>).</p> | 
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 | 344 |  | 
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 | 345 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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 | 346 |  | 
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 | 348 |         Copyright © 1999-2008, Apache Software Foundation | 
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