On 30/11/2011 11:14, Ellecer Valencia wrote: > Thanks Igor. I made a mistake though. I actually meant "modifying web.xml > and restarting the webapp." > > We want to find a way to change session timeouts - even for existing > sessions - without doing a restart of the webapp.
I don't see an obvious way to do that using Tomcat provided components. You could certainly add your own implementation to do it, & expose this over JMX. p > I know there's also a server-level session timeout in tomcat's > /conf/web.xml but that would 1.affect all webapps (we only want to affect > the older version - foo##001) and 2.it requires tomcat restart (we are > trying to reduce downtime for users) > > Ellecer > > On Wednesday, November 30, 2011, Igor Cicimov <icici...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Ellecer Valencia <elle...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >>> Is there a way to change session timeouts in tomcat via JMX? I've only >>> seen the operation called "expireSession", but not one that can change >>> the session timeout period. >>> >>> The only way I've found so far to modify session timeouts is by >>> modifying web.xml and restarting Tomcat. >>> >>> However, in our intended usage, we don't want to restart Tomcat and >>> kick out users. >>> >>> We're looking at using parallel deployment in Tomcat 7, and so we'll >>> have a situation with >>> >>> foo##001 -- old version >>> foo##002 -- new version >>> >>> What we want to do is decrease timeouts in foo##001, so that users >>> move to foo##002 sooner and allow us to get rid of the old version. >>> >>> I've had a look at the Manager MBean and there's operations to get the >>> existing session IDs and to expire individual sessions, but not to >>> change their timeouts (unless I've gone blind and there was something >>> there staring me in the face!). >>> >>> Is there any way - either another MBean in Tomcat or by accessing >>> Tomcat API - to change the session timeouts for a webapp? Someone told >>> me that Weblogic has this feature, so maybe it's not impossible to do >>> it in Tomcat (just speculating) >>> >>> >>> Ellecer >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >>> >>> >> Can't you just restart the application you are changing the timeout for? >> Why do you need to restart the whole server? >> > -- [key:62590808]
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