> > > Can I catch the event when a session is created from tomcat?
> >
> >
> > Yes, take a look at
> javax.servlet.HttpSessionBindingListener in servlet API.
> > This has been covered on this group before please look at
> the list archives.
> >
>
> Actually, this doesn't accurately answer the original question.
>
> You can indeed use HttpSessionBindingListener to detect when
> a particular
> object is *added* to a session. That is not the same as when
> the session
> is *created*. Note that it explicitly requires the application to
> participate (by adding a specific session attribute).
>
> In a servlet 2.3 environment (i.e. Tomcat 4), there is a new feature
> called application event listeners. In particular, there are defined
> listeners for "session created" and "session destroyed" that
> are called at
> those precise times, not just when a particular object is added and
> removed.
That is what I mean. Binding Listeners and the Tomcat 4 implementation
of the listeners have been discussed before and can be referred to in
more detail in the archives. I believe someone mentioned doing this
with a SessionInterceptor and the binding listener a while back but
I'm not sure.
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Michael Wentzel
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