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Session Timeout

HTTP is a stateless protocol, the server receives no implicit notice that a client has closed his browser or it is idle. Therefore any Java EE-compliant server provides a standard, configurable session timeout mechanism to allow resources tied to the HTTP session to be freed when the user has stopped performing requests.

We have to timeout mechanisams.

1. Implicit Timeout Due to User Inactivity and
2. Explicit HttpSession Timeout

1. Configure the Implicit Timeout Due to User Inactivity :

You configure the session timeout threshold using the session-timeout tag in the web.xml file. The default value is 35 minutes. When the HttpSession times out the BindingContext goes out of scope, and along with it, any data controls that might have referenced application modules released to the pool in the managed state level. The application module pool resets any of these referenced application modules and marks the instances unreferenced again.

2. Explicit HttpSession Timeout  :

To end a user's session before the session timeout expires, you can call the invalidate() method on the HttpSession object from a backing bean in response to the user's click on a Logout button or link.
This cleans up the HttpSession in the same way as if the session time had expired. Using JSF and ADF, after invalidating the session, you must perform a redirect to the next page you want to display, rather than just doing a forward.

Following code explains how to implement explict session timeout.

 public String logoutButton_action() throws IOException{
  ExternalContext ectx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext();
  HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse)ectx.getResponse();
  HttpSession session = (HttpSession)ectx.getSession(false);
  session.invalidate();
  response.sendRedirect("Welcome.jspx");
  return null;
}

As with the implicit timeouts, when the HTTP session is cleaned up this way, it ends up causing any referenced application modules to be marked as un referenced.

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