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<ul><li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="#Attributes">Attributes</a><ol><li><a href="#Common_Attributes">Common Attributes</a></li><li><a href="#Standard_Implementation">Standard Implementation</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="#Nested_Components">Nested Components</a></li><li><a href="#Special_Features">Special Features</a><ol><li><a href="#Persistence_Across_Restarts">Persistence Across Restarts</a></li><li><a href="#Disable_Session_Persistence">Disable Session Persistence</a></li></ol></li></ul>
</div><h3 id="Introduction">Introduction</h3><div class="text">
<p>The <strong>Manager</strong> element represents the <em>session
manager</em> that will be used to create and maintain HTTP sessions
as requested by the associated web application.</p>
<p>A Manager element MAY be nested inside a
<a href="context.html">Context</a> component. If it is not included,
a default Manager configuration will be created automatically, which
is sufficient for most requirements, — see
<em>Standard Manager Implementation</em> below for the details
of this configuration.</p>
</div><h3 id="Attributes">Attributes</h3><div class="text">
<div class="subsection"><h4 id="Common_Attributes">Common Attributes</h4><div class="text">
<p>All implementations of <strong>Manager</strong>
support the following attributes:</p>
<table class="defaultTable"><tr><th style="width: 15%;">
Attribute
</th><th style="width: 85%;">
Description
</th></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">className</code></td><td>
<p>Java class name of the implementation to use. This class must
implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.Manager</code> interface.
If not specified, the standard value (defined below) will be used.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">maxActiveSessions</code></td><td>
<p>The maximum number of active sessions that will be created by
this Manager, or <code>-1</code> (the default) for no limit.</p>
<p>When the limit is reached, any attempt to create a new session
(e.g. with <code>HttpServletRequest.getSession()</code> call)
will fail with an <code>IllegalStateException</code>.</p>
</td></tr></table>
</div></div>
<div class="subsection"><h4 id="Standard_Implementation">Standard Implementation</h4><div class="text">
<p>Tomcat provides two standard implementations of <strong>Manager</strong>
for use — the default one stores active sessions, while the optional one
stores active sessions that have been swapped out (in addition to saving
sessions across a restart of Tomcat) in a storage location that is selected
via the use of an appropriate <strong>Store</strong> nested element.</p>
<h3>Standard Manager Implementation</h3>
<p>The standard implementation of <strong>Manager</strong> is
<strong>org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager</strong>.
It supports the following additional attributes (in addition to the
common attributes listed above):</p>
<table class="defaultTable"><tr><th style="width: 15%;">
Attribute
</th><th style="width: 85%;">
Description
</th></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">pathname</code></td><td>
<p>Absolute or relative (to the work directory for this Context)
pathname of the file in which session state will be preserved
across application restarts, if possible. The default is
"SESSIONS.ser".<br>See
<a href="#Persistence_Across_Restarts">Persistence Across Restarts</a>
for more information. This persistence may be
disabled by setting this attribute to an empty string.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">persistAuthentication</code></td><td>
<p>Should authentication information be included when session state is
preserved across application restarts? If <code>true</code>, the session's
authentication is preserved so that the session remains authenticated
after the application has been restarted. If not specified, the default
value of <code>false</code> will be used.<br>See
<a href="#Persistence_Across_Restarts">Persistence Across Restarts</a>
for more information.</p>
<p>Please note that the session's <code>Principal</code> class as well
as its descendant classes are all subject to the
<strong>sessionAttributeValueClassNameFilter</strong>. If such a filter
is specified or a <code>SecurityManager</code> is enabled, the names of
the <code>Principal</code> class and descendant classes must match that
filter pattern in order to be restored.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">persistAuthenticationNotes</code></td><td>
<p>Should authentication notes (used during FORM authentication) be
included when session state is preserved across application restarts?
If <code>true</code>, the session's authentication notes are preserved
so that an in progress FORM authentication can continue after the
application has been restarted. If not specified, the default value of
<code>false</code> will be used.<br>See
<a href="#Persistence_Across_Restarts">Persistence Across Restarts</a>
for more information.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">processExpiresFrequency</code></td><td>
<p>Frequency of the session expiration, and related manager operations.
Manager operations will be done once for the specified amount of
backgroundProcess calls (i.e., the lower the amount, the more often the
checks will occur). The minimum value is 1, and the default value is 6.
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">secureRandomClass</code></td><td>
<p>Name of the Java class that extends
<code>java.security.SecureRandom</code> to use to generate session IDs.
If not specified, the default value is
<code>java.security.SecureRandom</code>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">secureRandomProvider</code></td><td>
<p>Name of the provider to use to create the
<code>java.security.SecureRandom</code> instances that generate session
IDs. If an invalid algorithm and/or provider is specified, the Manager
will use the platform default provider and the default algorithm. If not
specified, the platform default provider will be used.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">secureRandomAlgorithm</code></td><td>
<p>Name of the algorithm to use to create the
<code>java.security.SecureRandom</code> instances that generate session
IDs. If an invalid algorithm and/or provider is specified, the Manager
will use the platform default provider and the default algorithm. If not
specified, the default algorithm of SHA1PRNG will be used. If the
default algorithm is not supported, the platform default will be used.
To specify that the platform default should be used, do not set the
secureRandomProvider attribute and set this attribute to the empty
string.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">sessionAttributeNameFilter</code></td><td>
<p>A regular expression used to filter which session attributes will be
serialized for clustering/replication, or storage to any persistent store.
An attribute will only be serialized if its name matches
this pattern. If the pattern is zero length or <code>null</code>, all
attributes are eligible for distribution. The pattern is anchored so the
session attribute name must fully match the pattern. As an example, the
value <code>(userName|sessionHistory)</code> will only distribute the
two session attributes named <code>userName</code> and
<code>sessionHistory</code>. If not specified, the default value of
<code>null</code> will be used.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">sessionAttributeValueClassNameFilter</code></td><td>
<p>A regular expression used to filter which session attributes will be
serialized for clustering/replication, or storage to any persistent store.
An attribute will only be serialized if the implementation
class name of the value matches this pattern. If the pattern is zero
length or <code>null</code>, all attributes are eligible for
distribution. The pattern is anchored so the fully qualified class name
must fully match the pattern. If not specified, the default value of
<code>null</code> will be used unless a <code>SecurityManager</code> is
enabled in which case the default will be
<code>java\\.lang\\.(?:Boolean|Integer|Long|Number|String)|org\\.apache\\.catalina\\.realm\\.GenericPrincipal\\$SerializablePrincipal|\\[Ljava.lang.String;</code>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">warnOnSessionAttributeFilterFailure</code></td><td>
<p>If <strong>sessionAttributeNameFilter</strong> or
<strong>sessionAttributeValueClassNameFilter</strong> blocks an
attribute, should this be logged at <code>WARN</code> level? If
<code>WARN</code> level logging is disabled then it will be logged at
<code>DEBUG</code>. The default value of this attribute is
<code>false</code> unless a <code>SecurityManager</code> is enabled in
which case the default will be <code>true</code>.</p>
</td></tr></table>
<h3>Persistent Manager Implementation</h3>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> You must set either the
<code>org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.ACTIVITY_CHECK</code> or
<code>org.apache.catalina.STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE</code>
<a href="systemprops.html">system properties</a> to <code>true</code> for
the persistent manager to work correctly.</p>
<p>The persistent implementation of <strong>Manager</strong> is
<strong>org.apache.catalina.session.PersistentManager</strong>. In
addition to the usual operations of creating and deleting sessions, a
<code>PersistentManager</code> has the capability to swap active (but
idle) sessions out to a persistent storage mechanism, as well as to save
all sessions across a normal restart of Tomcat. The actual persistent
storage mechanism used is selected by your choice of a
<strong>Store</strong> element nested inside the <strong>Manager</strong>
element - this is required for use of <code>PersistentManager</code>.</p>
<p>This implementation of Manager supports the following attributes in
addition to the <a href="#Common_Attributes">Common Attributes</a>
described earlier.</p>
<table class="defaultTable"><tr><th style="width: 15%;">
Attribute
</th><th style="width: 85%;">
Description
</th></tr><tr><td><strong><code class="attributeName">className</code></strong></td><td>
<p>It has the same meaning as described in the
<a href="#Common_Attributes">Common Attributes</a> above.
You <strong>must</strong> specify
<code>org.apache.catalina.session.PersistentManager</code> to use
this manager implementation.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">maxIdleBackup</code></td><td>
<p>The time interval (in seconds) since the last access to a session
before it is eligible for being persisted to the session store, or
<code>-1</code> to disable this feature. By default, this feature is
disabled.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">maxIdleSwap</code></td><td>
<p>The maximum time a session may be idle before it is eligible to be
swapped to disk due to inactivity. Setting this to <code>-1</code> means
sessions should not be swapped out just because of inactivity. If this
feature is enabled, the time interval specified here should be equal to
or longer than the value specified for <code>maxIdleBackup</code>. By
default, this feature is disabled.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">minIdleSwap</code></td><td>
<p>The minimum time in seconds a session must be idle before it is
eligible to be swapped to disk to keep the active session count below
maxActiveSessions. Setting to <code>-1</code> means sessions will not be
swapped out to keep the active session count down. If specified, this
value should be less than that specified by <code>maxIdleSwap</code>.
By default, this value is set to <code>-1</code>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">persistAuthentication</code></td><td>
<p>Should authentication information be included when sessions are
swapped out to persistent storage? If <code>true</code>, the session's
authentication is preserved so that the session remains authenticated
after being reloaded (swapped in) from persistent storage. If not
specified, the default value of <code>false</code> will be used.</p>
<p>Please note that the session's <code>Principal</code> class as well
as its descendant classes are all subject to the
<strong>sessionAttributeValueClassNameFilter</strong>. If such a filter
is specified or a <code>SecurityManager</code> is enabled, the names of
the <code>Principal</code> class and descendant classes must match that
filter pattern in order to be restored.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">persistAuthenticationNotes</code></td><td>
<p>Should authentication notes (used during FORM authentication) be
included when sessions are swapped out to persistent storage? If
<code>true</code>, the session's authentication notes (used during
FORM authentication) are preserved so that an in progress FORM
authentication can continue after being reloaded (swapped in) from
persistent storage. If not specified, the default value of
<code>false</code> will be used.</p>
<p>Please note that if it is possible that the session will be swapped
in to a different node to the node from which it was swapped out, all
nodes must be upgraded to at least 8.5.83 (the version where this
feature was introduced) before this feature is enabled else the swapping
in may fail.</p>
<p>This attribute has been removed for Tomcat 10.1.x onwards which
always persists FORM authenticaton notes.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">processExpiresFrequency</code></td><td>
<p>It is the same as described above for the
<code>org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager</code> class.
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">saveOnRestart</code></td><td>
<p>Should all sessions be persisted and reloaded when Tomcat is shut
down and restarted (or when this application is reloaded)? By default,
this attribute is set to <code>true</code>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">secureRandomClass</code></td><td>
<p>It is the same as described above for the
<code>org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager</code> class.
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">secureRandomProvider</code></td><td>
<p>It is the same as described above for the
<code>org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager</code> class.
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">secureRandomAlgorithm</code></td><td>
<p>It is the same as described above for the
<code>org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager</code> class.
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">sessionAttributeNameFilter</code></td><td>
<p>A regular expression used to filter which session attributes will be
serialized for clustering/replication, or storage to any persistent store.
An attribute will only be serialized if its name matches
this pattern. If the pattern is zero length or <code>null</code>, all
attributes are eligible for distribution. The pattern is anchored so the
session attribute name must fully match the pattern. As an example, the
value <code>(userName|sessionHistory)</code> will only distribute the
two session attributes named <code>userName</code> and
<code>sessionHistory</code>. If not specified, the default value of
<code>null</code> will be used.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">sessionAttributeValueClassNameFilter</code></td><td>
<p>A regular expression used to filter which session attributes will be
serialized for clustering/replication, or storage to any persistent store.
An attribute will only be serialized if the implementation
class name of the value matches this pattern. If the pattern is zero
length or <code>null</code>, all attributes are eligible for
distribution. The pattern is anchored so the fully qualified class name
must fully match the pattern. If not specified, the default value of
<code>null</code> will be used unless a <code>SecurityManager</code> is
enabled in which case the default will be
<code>java\\.lang\\.(?:Boolean|Integer|Long|Number|String)|org\\.apache\\.catalina\\.realm\\.GenericPrincipal\\$SerializablePrincipal|\\[Ljava.lang.String;</code>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">warnOnSessionAttributeFilterFailure</code></td><td>
<p>If <strong>sessionAttributeNameFilter</strong> or
<strong>sessionAttributeValueClassNameFilter</strong> blocks an
attribute, should this be logged at <code>WARN</code> level? If
<code>WARN</code> level logging is disabled then it will be logged at
<code>DEBUG</code>. The default value of this attribute is
<code>false</code> unless a <code>SecurityManager</code> is enabled in
which case the default will be <code>true</code>.</p>
</td></tr></table>
<p>In order to successfully use a PersistentManager, you must nest inside
it a <strong><Store></strong> element, as described below.</p>
</div></div>
</div><h3 id="Nested_Components">Nested Components</h3><div class="text">
<h3>All Manager Implementations</h3>
<p>All Manager implementations allow nesting of a
<strong><SessionIdGenerator></strong> element. It defines
the behavior of session id generation. All implementations
of the <a href="sessionidgenerator.html">SessionIdGenerator</a> allow the
following attributes:
</p>
<table class="defaultTable"><tr><th style="width: 15%;">
Attribute
</th><th style="width: 85%;">
Description
</th></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">sessionIdLength</code></td><td>
<p>The length of the session ID may be changed with the
<strong>sessionIdLength</strong> attribute.
</p>
</td></tr></table>
<h3>Persistent Manager Implementation</h3>
<p>If you are using the <em>Persistent Manager Implementation</em>
as described above, you <strong>MUST</strong> nest a
<strong><Store></strong> element inside, which defines the
characteristics of the persistent data storage. Two implementations
of the <code><Store></code> element are currently available,
with different characteristics, as described below.</p>
<h5>File Based Store</h5>
<p>The <em>File Based Store</em> implementation saves swapped out
sessions in individual files (named based on the session identifier)
in a configurable directory. Therefore, you are likely to encounter
scalability problems as the number of active sessions increases, and
this should primarily be considered a means to easily experiment.</p>
<p>To configure this, add a <code><Store></code> nested inside
your <code><Manager></code> element with the following attributes:
</p>
<table class="defaultTable"><tr><th style="width: 15%;">
Attribute
</th><th style="width: 85%;">
Description
</th></tr><tr><td><strong><code class="attributeName">className</code></strong></td><td>
<p>Java class name of the implementation to use. This class must
implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.Store</code> interface. You
<strong>must</strong> specify
<code>org.apache.catalina.session.FileStore</code>
to use this implementation.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">directory</code></td><td>
<p>Absolute or relative (to the temporary work directory for this web
application) pathname of the directory into which individual session
files are written. If not specified, the temporary work directory
assigned by the container is utilized.</p>
</td></tr></table>
<h5>Data source Based Store</h5>
<p>The <em>Data source Based Store</em> implementation saves swapped out
sessions in individual rows of a preconfigured table in a database
that is accessed via a data sourcer. With large numbers of swapped out
sessions, this implementation will exhibit improved performance over
the File Based Store described above.</p>
<p>To configure this, add a <code><Store></code> nested inside
your <code><Manager></code> element with the following attributes:
</p>
<table class="defaultTable"><tr><th style="width: 15%;">
Attribute
</th><th style="width: 85%;">
Description
</th></tr><tr><td><strong><code class="attributeName">className</code></strong></td><td>
<p>Java class name of the implementation to use. This class must
implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.Store</code> interface. You
<strong>must</strong> specify
<code>org.apache.catalina.session.DataSourceStore</code>
to use this implementation.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">dataSourceName</code></td><td>
<p>Name of the JNDI resource for a JDBC DataSource-factory. Since this
code uses prepared statements, you might want to configure pooled
prepared statements as shown in
<a href="../jndi-resources-howto.html">the JNDI resources
How-To</a>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">localDataSource</code></td><td>
<p>This allows the Store to use a DataSource defined for the Context
rather than a global DataSource. If not specified, the default is
<code>false</code>: use a global DataSource.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">sessionAppCol</code></td><td>
<p>Name of the database column, contained in the specified session table,
that contains the Engine, Host, and Web Application Context name in the
format <code>/Engine/Host/Context</code>. If not specified the default
value of <code>app</code> will be used.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">sessionDataCol</code></td><td>
<p>Name of the database column, contained in the specified session table,
that contains the serialized form of all session attributes for a swapped
out session. The column type must accept a binary object (typically called
a BLOB). If not specified the default value of <code>data</code> will be
used.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">sessionIdCol</code></td><td>
<p>Name of the database column, contained in the specified session table,
that contains the session identifier of the swapped out session. The
column type must accept character string data of at least as many
characters as are contained in session identifiers created by Tomcat
(typically 32). If not specified the default value of <code>id</code> will
be used.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">sessionLastAccessedCol</code></td><td>
<p>Name of the database column, contained in the specified session table,
that contains the <code>lastAccessedTime</code> property of this session.
The column type must accept a Java <code>long</code> (64 bits). If not
specified the default value of <code>maxinactive</code> will be used.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">sessionMaxInactiveCol</code></td><td>
<p>Name of the database column, contained in the specified session table,
that contains the <code>maxInactiveInterval</code> property of this
session. The column type must accept a Java <code>integer</code> (32
bits). If not specified, the default value of <code>maxinactive</code>
will be used.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">sessionTable</code></td><td>
<p>Name of the database table to be used for storing swapped out sessions.
This table must contain (at least) the database columns that are
configured by the other attributes of this element. If not specified the
default value of <code>tomcat$sessions</code> will be used.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">sessionValidCol</code></td><td>
<p>Name of the database column, contained in the specified session table,
that contains a flag indicating whether this swapped out session is still
valid or not. The column type must accept a single character. If not
specified the default value of <code>valid</code> will be used.</p>
</td></tr></table>
<p>Before attempting to use the data source Store for the first time,
you must create the table that will be used to store swapped out sessions.
Detailed SQL commands vary depending on the database you are using, but
a script like this will generally be required:</p>
<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>create table tomcat_sessions (
session_id varchar(100) not null primary key,
valid_session char(1) not null,
max_inactive int not null,
last_access bigint not null,
app_name varchar(255),
session_data mediumblob,
KEY kapp_name(app_name)
);</code></pre></div>
<p>Note: The SQL command above does not use the default names for either the
table or the columns so the data source Store would need to be configured
to reflect this.</p>
</div><h3 id="Special_Features">Special Features</h3><div class="text">
<div class="subsection"><h4 id="Persistence_Across_Restarts">Persistence Across Restarts</h4><div class="text">
<p>Whenever Apache Tomcat is shut down normally and restarted, or when an
application reload is triggered, the standard Manager implementation
will attempt to serialize all currently active sessions to a disk
file located via the <code>pathname</code> attribute. All such saved
sessions will then be deserialized and activated (assuming they have
not expired in the mean time) when the application reload is completed.</p>
<p>In order to successfully restore the state of session attributes,
all such attributes MUST implement the <code>java.io.Serializable</code>
interface. You MAY cause the Manager to enforce this restriction by
including the <code><distributable></code> element in your web
application deployment descriptor (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>).</p>
<p>Note that, if <strong>persistAuthentication</strong> is also set to
<code>true</code>, the <code>Principal</code> class present in the session
MUST also implement the <code>java.io.Serializable</code> interface in order
to make authentication persistence work properly. The actual type of that
<code>Principal</code> class is determined by the <a href="realm.html">
Realm</a> implementation used with the application. Tomcat's standard
<code>Principal</code> class instantiated by most of the Realms (except
<code>JAASRealm</code>) implements <code>java.io.Serializable</code>.</p>
<p>The persistence across restarts provided by the
<strong>StandardManager</strong> is a simpler implementation than that
provided by the <strong>PersistentManager</strong>. If robust, production
quality persistence across restarts is required then the
<strong>PersistentManager</strong> should be used with an appropriate
configuration.</p>
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<div class="subsection"><h4 id="Disable_Session_Persistence">Disable Session Persistence</h4><div class="text">
<p>As documented above, every web application by default has
standard manager implementation configured, and it performs session
persistence across restarts. To disable this persistence feature, create
a <a href="context.html">Context</a> configuration file for your web
application and add the following element there:</p>
<div class="codeBox"><pre><code><Manager pathname="" /></code></pre></div>
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