Contents

List of Examples

List of Figures

List of Tables

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 Introduction

• 1.1 What is Coherence*Web?
• 1.2 Supported Web Containers
• 1.3 Installation and Deployment Road Map
  • 1.3.1 Choose your Cluster Node Isolation
  • 1.3.2 Choose your Locking Mode
  • 1.3.3 Choose How to Scope Sessions and Session Attributes
  • 1.3.4 Choose When to Clean Up Expired HTTP Sessions
  • 1.3.5 Choose the Installation Method

2 Installing Coherence*Web on WebLogic Server 9.2 MP1 and 10.3

• 2.1 Overview of the Coherence*Web SPI
  • 2.1.1 Location of the Coherence*Web SPI
  • 2.1.2 Requirements for Using the Coherence*Web SPI
  • 2.1.3 Coherence*Web SPI Configurations for the WebLogic Server
• 2.2 Overview Of Configuration and Deployment
  • 2.2.1 Configuring and Starting a Cache Server
  • 2.2.2 Packaging Applications and Configuring Cluster Nodes
    • 2.2.2.1 Packaging and Configuring Application Server-Scoped Cluster Nodes
    • 2.2.2.2 Packaging and Configuring EAR-Scoped Cluster Nodes
    • 2.2.2.3 Packaging and Configuring WAR-Scoped Cluster Nodes
  • 2.2.3 Configuring Web Applications for Coherence*Web
• 2.3 Using SAML SSO with Coherence*Web
• 2.4 Known Limitations

3 Installing Coherence*Web on Other Application Servers

• 3.1 Installing Coherence*Web Using the WebInstaller
  • 3.1.1 Application Server-Specific Installation Instructions
    • 3.1.1.1 Installing on Oracle WebLogic 10.x
    • 3.1.1.2 Installing on Caucho Resin 3.1.x
  • 3.1.2 General Instructions for Installing Coherence*Web Session Management Module
  • 3.1.3 Coherence*Web WebInstaller Ant Task
    • 3.1.3.1 Using the WebInstaller Ant task
    • 3.1.3.2 Configuring the WebInstaller Ant Task
    • 3.1.3.3 WebInstaller Ant Task Examples
  • 3.1.4 Testing HTTP Session Management
  • 3.1.5 How the Coherence*Web Installer Instruments a Java EE Application
  • 3.1.6 Installing Coherence*Web into Applications using Java EE Security

4 Coherence*Web Session Management Features

• 4.1 Session Models
  • 4.1.1 Traditional Model
  • 4.1.2 Monolithic Model
  • 4.1.3 Split Model
  • 4.1.4 Session Model Recommendations
• 4.2 Session and Session Attribute Scoping
  • 4.2.1 Session Scoping
    • 4.2.1.1 Preventing Web Applications from Sharing Session Data
    • 4.2.1.2 Keeping Session Cookies Separate
  • 4.2.2 Session Attribute Scoping
• 4.3 Cluster Node Isolation
  • 4.3.1 Application Server-Scoped Cluster Nodes
  • 4.3.2 EAR-Scoped Cluster Nodes
  • 4.3.3 WAR-Scoped Cluster Nodes
• 4.4 Session Locking Modes
  • 4.4.1 Optimistic Locking (Default)
  • 4.4.2 Member Locking
  • 4.4.3 Application Locking
  • 4.4.4 Thread Locking
  • 4.4.5 Using Locking in HTTP Sessions
  • 4.4.6 Enabling Sticky Session Optimizations
• 4.5 Deployment Topologies
  • 4.5.1 In-Process
  • 4.5.2 Out-of-Process
  • 4.5.3 Out-of-Process with Coherence*Extend
• 4.6 Managing and Monitoring Applications with JMX
• 4.7 Cleaning Up Expired HTTP Sessions
  • 4.7.1 Understanding the Session Reaper
  • 4.7.2 Configuring the Session Reaper
• 4.8 Overriding the Distribution of HTTP Sessions and Attributes
  • 4.8.1 Implementing a Session Distribution Controller
  • 4.8.2 Registering a Session Distribution Controller Implementation
• 4.9 Configuring Coherence*Web with Coherence*Extend
  • 4.9.1 Configuring Coherence*Web for Optimistic Locking
  • 4.9.2 Configuring the Cache for Proxy and Storage JVMs
  • 4.9.3 Configuring the Cache for Web Tier JVMs

5 Installing Coherence*Web on WebLogic Portal

• 5.1 Installing Coherence*Web with WebLogic Portal

A Coherence*Web Configuration Parameters

B Session Cache Configuration File

Index