Thanks! I can see this doing what I need and a lot more that i hadn't yet addressed.

---Raymond

Pavel Veller wrote:
> 
> RB> Hi there
> RB>   I have a servlet (part of a web appl in JRun 3.0SP2 under Linux) that I would 
>like to have detect
> RB> when a user's session has timed out (i.e. the web application session timeout 
>has been reached)
> RB> Currently I know that this has happened when my servlet attempts to get a 
>RequestDispatcher with...
> RB> "getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher(..."
> RB> ....and gets a NULL back.
> RB>  I would like like a clearer way of detecting that the user session is 
>invalid/has timed out than
> RB> just the NULL RD since presumable the null RD could have been a result of other 
>problems as well.
> RB> Any help or pointers greatly appreciated!
> RB> ---Raymond
> 
> You can do as follows: (We use this solutions for logging User sessions):
> 
> 1)
> public class UserSession {
>  ....
>  public boolean begin() {
>    .. session started
>  }
> 
>  public boolean end() {
>    ... session ended / invalidate
>  }
> }
> 
> 2)
> final public class HttpUserSession extends UserSession implements 
>javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingListener {
> 
>   public HttpUserSession(){
>     super();
>     ....
>   }
> 
>   public void valueBound(javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingEvent event) {
>     if (!begin()) {
>       // log "can not start session tracking"
>     }
>   }
> 
>   public void valueUnbound(javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingEvent event) {
>     if (!end()) {
>      // log "can not finish session tracking"
>     }
>   }
> }
> 
> 3)
> in jsp code: (login_action.jsp)
> 
> session.setAttribute(HttpUserSession.class.getName(), new HttpUserSession());
> 
>
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