Just be aware it will get messy if the webapp is distributed. One suggestion - don't configure the sessions for 12h maxInactiveInterval. Keep the default 30m (or was it 15m? whatever), and change it to 12h only after login. Otherwise guest-sessions will expire in 12h too, and that's just wasteful.
Greetings, Lilianne E. Blaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We have tomcat configured to allow users sessions to stay alive for 12 > hours. This is because this is how they like to work, login once at the > start of the day and shutdown at the end of the day. > > I have a need to track their actual activity, like a concurrent license > tool, and thought the best way of doing this would be to have a servlet > start a timer at server startup, this servlet could then poll all the > active sessions at a set interval and check the getLastAccessedtime() > method, building up a view of the actual activity. > > Am I going about this in the right way? > > If I am how do I access all the currently active sessions from a servlet? > It looks like if I can gain access to the servers engine/context I could > access all sessions via the ManagerBase class but I do not know how to do > this. > > Thanks Gary > _____________ > This e-mail transmission and any attachments to it are intended solely for > the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain > confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended > recipient, your use, forwarding, printing, storing, disseminating, > distribution, or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you > received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately > by replying to this message and delete it from your computer. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]