Re: Handling Session Expiration Properly

2005-04-14 Thread Joe Germuska
Scott: I'm kind of confused by a couple of things you wrote. Can you clarify? Now don't get me wrong this works, but by extending the Action class I kind of screwed myself by not being able to use a RequestDispatcher because now the signature of the "subclassed action" was not the same as what

Re: Handling Session Expiration Properly

2005-04-14 Thread Dakota Jack
+1 on Paul's comments. Doing this with the RequestProcessor is putting a relatively minor detail into the core of your application. Filters are good. I also think attaching a User.java object to your HttpSession is a very good idea. I actually have a number of things I like to attach with the u

RE: Handling Session Expiration Properly

2005-04-14 Thread Paul McCulloch
Hi Scott, I can't remeber if it was your question I replied to regarding authentication where I recommended using a filter to do this, rather than modifying the request processor. If it wasn't your question then I'd recommend a serach of the archives. If it was you - I still think modifying the re