pramodr wrote:
>> I have heard
>> that servlets can track the sessions, but have very limited idea on
>> this. My question is what is the strategy adopted in web applications
>> mostly ? Also heard of the Login servlet - is this the one which
>> tracks the entire session and delegates user requests to other
>> servlets ?
> The servlet container manage the sessions.
>
> It should be in any Java web app book.
One good place is
<http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/>
which is a bit thick reading at times, but still one of the most useful
educational sources I have found.
There is not really such a thing as "the" Login Servlet so much as such a
common need for it that it gets built in to the container, e.g., Tomcat or
JBoss or GlassFish, and also recreated at the application level over and over
in nearly the same form.
<http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/realm-howto.html>

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