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Re: [webtier] Re: Http session| share between diff. web app

From: Shing Wai Chan <Shing-Wai.Chan_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:48:46 -0700

One can achieve this through openSSO: https://opensso.dev.java.net/
In other words, you need to install openSSO on GlassFish.
      Shing Wai Chan

Jan Luehe wrote:
> On 10/13/08 01:45 AM, glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have two web apps deployed on same app server (sun app server 9.1).
>> Is it possible to share http session data across them (please ignore
>> the fact that servlet spec does not say to do so)?
>>
>>
>> Weblogic provides following setup to achieve this.
>> <weblogic-application xmlns="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/90";;>
>> <session-descriptor>
>> <persistence-store-type>memory</persistence-store-type>
>> <sharing-enabled>true</sharing-enabled>
>> </session-descriptor>
>> </weblogic-application>
>>
>>
>> please help.
>>
>
> This is not supported in GlassFish. The only kind of "session"
> information that can
> be shared by webapps in GlassFish is related to authentication, and
> stored inside
> Single-Sign-On (SSO) entries. Only webapps that are part of the same
> security realm,
> and deployed to the same virtual server, may share this kind of
> information.
>
> Enabling sharing of "regular" sessions across webapps is tricky,
> because it requires that
> different webapps have access to each other's classloaders, so that
> one webapp can read
> the session attributes (of custom class types) stored by another.
>
> As a side note, please use webtier_at_glassfish.dev.java.net for any
> GlassFish webtier
> related questions going forward.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jan
>
>> sujee
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