implement something using the HttpSessionBindingListener. We could
serialize the data, or at least know that we lost the session data
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Prohaska" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 7:15 AM
Subject: Handling session timeouts
>
> This was originally posted to the struts-user list, but Ted Husted pointed
> out that I should better discuss this on the development list.
>
> For the guys that are not listening to the user list, the background: We
> have written a wizard for a larger input process that requires some steps.
> We use one ActionForm bean for this wizard that keeps the data in the
> session context (everything done by struts). When I wanted to go to the
next
> step I recognized that all my data from the previous steps was lost and
> instead I had the default values. Obviously a session timeout occured and
> the original ActionForm was removed. Then a new session was automatically
> created and a new ActionForm bean was automatically added to the session
> context. Normally this is nice, but there was no way for my Action class
or
> JSP to see that in fact the session was lost and the data was wrong.
>
> Now I would recommend to place a method like processSession() at the start
> of the process() method in the ActionServlet. This could be changed by
> subclasses of the ActionServlet in order to intercept session creation and
> deprecation. OR it should call some more specialized class for this (say
> SessionManager). The advantage of this approach would be that we could
also
> introduce a new <page:init> tag that calls the same class in order to
> intercept session creation in JSP pages (that might be called directly).
>
> If the list decides that this could be nice, I would make the changes but
> then I need to know how I can submit them :-)
>
> What do you think?
>
> Andreas
>
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