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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:43 am Reply with quote
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Hello

By way of background, my current job involves programming J2EE applications.
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:43 pm Reply with quote
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IMO, distributed sessions in the servlet container world are more of a vanity. Most real world applications use database backed sessions anyway and in reality you can't let the servlet container manage distributed sessions - they simply don't scale very well. Plus, sessions are not really part of HTTP transport, so, I don't think it's wise to carry that code as part of core web server codebase. In any case, creating/managing sessions is pretty easy anyway.
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:46 pm Reply with quote
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:40 AM, David Hayek <dhayek@swbell.net (dhayek@swbell.net)> wrote:
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Hello

By way of background, my current job involves programming J2EE applications.
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:02 pm Reply with quote
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Steve

Thanks for responding so quickly.
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:24 pm Reply with quote
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I think most of the issues arise because people have been trained to think of sessions as something special. Session is just another piece of data in your database. Read it when you need. Write it once you're done. It's just another table and another POJO entity.
In functional world, you might write few functions to make it easy to extract from cookie,read and write the session.
That's pretty much it.
Redirecting to a login page for missing sessions is just another facet of your application. It might be an oft repeated pattern but still has nothing to do with web server and the container. Just abstract it away in an erlang module and reuse the module in all your apps.
Let's KISS !

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:59 AM, David Hayek <dhayek@swbell.net (dhayek@swbell.net)> wrote:
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Steve

Thanks for responding so quickly.
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