ok, I see th session listener interface in the javadocs as well as the session event class. any advice regarding *how* I plug it into tomcat? Is your method a standard J2EE solution or will this be Tomcat specific?
thanks for the quick reply, mark -----Original Message----- From: Mark W. Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:30 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How do I determine sessions within Tomcat? you would probably want to write a SessionListener, and plug it into tomcat. Turansky, Mark wrote: >I am required to track users and their sessions in my web application. Is there a >way to access all the sessions currently held in server memory? > >My application is tracking users in a database table. Upon login, I log the session >id along with a timestamp and other pertinent information. If the user specifically >clicks the "log out" button, I can update my table with another timestamp, but I >assume many will simply timeout. How do I update my table with their logout >timestamp in the event of timeout? I was hoping to make a simple maintenance thread >in the background that would check existing sessions against my database table for >this purpose. > >Thanks in advance, >Mark > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]