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Hi Marty and others
I had a problem some time ago and wonder if that could now be implemented better using Servlets 2.4 and JSP 2.0. I needed a session counter that kept track of the active sessions, so that I roughly knew how many users were online.
I implemented a SessionCounter class that implemented HttpSessionListener. On sessionCreated() I incremented a static variable and on sessionDestroyed I decremented the static variable (setting it to 0 when it got negative).
The problem there was the fact that this web server rebooted very often (at least twice a day). After every reboot I lost my static variable (it was reset to 0). However, the sessions had been restored by Tomcat but (of course) I got no sessionCreated() events for those restored sessions... So for at least 2-3 hours (high session timeout)
Now I would like to know if there is a more reliable solution to this problem using the new Servlet Spec 2.4 or if there are new event listeners.
Thank you for any hint.
Regards,
Christian
 
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I had the same issue. I tried using the ContextDestroyed method of the ServletContextListener to save my session counts (in a file for example). Next time when the context is initialized I load the saved counts in the ContextInitialized method of the same listener.

This works for me but not sure if this is the right thing to do.
 
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