I experienced no problems with the session listener. Server is a Tomcat 5.5 on Linux, the webapp is based on Appfuse 2.0
There could be a prolem regarding the identification of the active user, since the Acegi SecurityContext gets destroyed when a session is destroyed... Bye, Peter 2008/4/8, Dustin Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Ok, now that is a pattern I considered, but I don't have experience with > the HttpSessionListener. Has it worked well for you? Is it flakey? I > think I had a bad experience some time ago with session listeners, but that > could have been with .asp pages. Yes, I did .asp dev once. I needed the > money. I am ashamed. > -D > > On Apr 8, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Peter Schneider-Manzell wrote: > > Hi! > > I made something similar in one of my last web apps: > > - Store the last 10 pages the user visited in a list in the Session (By > using your interceptor). Make sure that only your max amount of entries are > stored in the list (By replacing the least relevant entry). > - Implement a HttpSessionListener and add the DB update in this listener-> > Only when the user gets logged out or his session expires, db updates are > triggered by using the list from the session. > > Maybe this helps, > > Bye, > > Peter > > 2008/4/8, Dustin Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Hello, > > > > I am having a mental block. I want to create a simple list that tracks > > the last 10 records the user visited. I am using Struts2 and I have > > implemented an interceptor to capture the id of the object when the user > > goes to show(). > > > > At this point, I am not sure how I want to, or the best way, to save > > this list. I am sure that I want the list to persist across sessions. My > > struggle is that I don't want to pollute my model with web specific data > > structures, and I didn't want to pollute my pretty REST controller with User > > Preference code. > > > > Struts2 interceptors have to be thread safe, so I am worried about > > persisting data to the database from there. If I synchronize those calls I > > worry I will be causing myself performance trouble. So........would > > you...... > > > > * Create a UserPreference object and then update the database with the > > interceptor each time the "thing" is viewed? The interceptor would only be > > run on this specific action method -- show(). > > * Something else? > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >
