I want to share a session between two Web applications

[Taro Yamada]

Hi all,
I was using was3.5 until now. And the session
was shared between two Web applications.
It was moving normally.
I upgraded Was to 4.0 this time. And two Web applications(*.war) were registered into the same enterprise application.
I want to share a session between this Web application.
That is, the session information created by servlet in a.war is referred to by servlet in b.war, or is updated.
Is this possible?
#I am not good at English. I'm sorry when unclear.

[Simon Song]

Apply the latest fp4 for WAS4.0, you will have this choice back!

[Taro Yamada]

Hello, Simon.
Unless it applies fix4, is a session unsharable between different Web applications?
Taro

[Vinod Bijlani]

Something u can try
- use session persistance
- configure the database for the session persistance (BOTH APP SERVERS INSTANCES) to be the same same db & same schema
[ August 15, 2002: Message edited by: Vinod Bijlani ]

[JeanLouis Marechaux]

Originally posted by Simon Song:
Apply the latest fp4 for WAS4.0, you will have this choice back!

Simon, you mean this is possible with WAS 4.04 ?
But am I wrong or is this not in accordance with the servlet specs ?

[Simon Song]

Servlet spec disallow this, but there are many existing applications based on old spec need this feature. I think IBM just provides this as an migration facility for those old applications.
New application architecture should comply with latest spec.

[Taro Yamada]

Hi all,
Thank you for advising my question.
I read the release note of fixpack4. And I found description of the
following related with a new function.
> Provide session sharing across Web applications in an enterprise application
It seems that a share of a session is possible at WebSphere4.04 so that Simon may say.
Thank you, Simon!
You can refer to the release note of fixpack4 by url of the following.
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/websphere/appserv/support/fixpacks/was40/fixpack4/docs/404rn.html