Conclusion

In this chapter, we have examined the basics of HTTP session management and outlined some options for maintaining application state with HTTP session. We've seen how WAS implements HTTP session and covered the two approaches for persisting session data to a database and memory to memory. We also covered some of the performance implications of the session management configuration options and discussed some troubleshooting approaches.

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