WebSphere provides a number of out-of-the-box session management options,
including a new in-memory replication option in WebSphere 5. Successful use
of session management requires some engineering foresight, and optimal use of
session management requires an understanding of the options that WebSphere
provides.
On the engineering side, the rules for successful session management are
simple: Make sure that all attributes that are put into a session are
serializable. This allows you to later use distributed sessions if necessary
for scalability or failover reasons. If you get a mutable attribute out of
the session and change it, make sure that you explicitly put it back (using
the setAttribute method) so the container knows for certain that the session
attribute was modified. This is unnecessary for nondistributed sessions, or
when using advanced session products, bu... (more)
When it comes to promoting an opinion, an open source project, a software
product or even a company, what constitutes crossing the line? Recently, on
other message boards, JBoss Inc. employees were shown to have used multiple
fake online personas to not only simulate community support for JBoss, but to
denigrate competitors and even to attack individuals that criticized JBoss in
public. The JDJ Readers' Choice Awards has become an annual ballot-stuffing
initiative for many of the industry's leading vendors. On JRoller and other
Java blogs, anonymous posters and fake personas push... (more)