You can store sessions in a hash with an expiry time, and then toss out expired requests with a Filter injected in the request path. LinkedHashMap is a good tool for tracking things which need to get cached and expired. You could also use memcache, Redis, etc.
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Martin O'Shea <appy74_at_dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>Hello
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>I am a REST newbie and I'm in the process of setting up a web service
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>Jersey. I already have client and server communicating with each other
>by
>sending XML requests. And I would like the user of the client, an
>android
>app, to be authenticated by the server for a set period of time and
>then
>have to re-authenticate after that time has expired.
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>Can anyone suggest anything?
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>Thanks
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>Martin O'Shea.
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