Release resources

[Vicky Jain]

Hello guys,

I'm having the following two questions regarding timeouts:

1) How can i release the acquired resources like database connection, handles to other resources etc, when the servelet timeouts.

2) Also how can i change the session-timeouts?

ThanQ

[Juanjo Bazan]

1) How can i release the acquired resources like database connection, handles to other resources etc, when the servelet timeouts.

You can associate a HttpSessionListener. This class is in the javax.servlet.http package and it has a method sessionDestroyed.

2) Also how can i change the session-timeouts?

Do it in your deployment descriptor file:
add this to your web.xml to set the session timeout to 30 minutes:

  <session-config>
    <session-timeout>30</session-timeout>
  </session-config>

HTH

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Vicky,
Beware of holding a connection for the entire life of the session. A connection is a very expensive resource.

[Vicky Jain]

Thanks to all of you guys out here