Why do you need a Webserver at all? What about plain Java Sockets instead? Jens
Von meinem iPad gesendet Am 19.11.2012 um 03:34 schrieb Baron Von Awsm <baronvona...@gmail.com>: > My web app consists of a single servlet, no JSPs and no static content. The > servlet retrieves XML from POST submissions and hands the XML and IP > address of the client to an API/engine. This engine can work outside of a > web container and has no knowledge of a web container. It has its own > mechanism for managing sessions. > > For this reason, for this web application, I require no session management > overhead by Tomcat. I would like to disable all aspects (that I can) of > Tomcat session management, including session cookies and/or url rewriting. > > Searches on the topic yielded the following suggestions, > > 1. Never call getSession(). That makes sense - if its never called then > things are never stored in the session and, perhaps, Tomcat doesn't create > some things that it might have. But I have some question marks over this > suggestion. Does Tomcat still utilise resources simply by having the > standard session manager in place? Does tomcat still set cookies and/or > rewrite URLs? If I never call getSession() will this lead to as little > resources being used when compared to a solution that replaces the standard > manager with a 'do nothing' manager implementation? > > 2. Set the 'cookies' attribute of the context to false. To me, I would not > think this addresses my issue at all. > > 3. Write a Manager implementation that does the bare minimum. This would > seem like the best solution to me, although, the most time consuming. > > My question - Given that I do not require the use of http sessions in > Tomcat, what would be the best way for me to minimise the resources Tomcat > devotes to session management? I would prefer if the solution disabled > session cookie writing and/or url rewriting, as neither serves a purpose as > there are no sessions to track (from my application's perspective). > > Cheers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
