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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:18:04 +0100
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Subject: Re: Tomcat 6 on Linux - session - DB connections and other shared
	resources
From: Kees de Kooter <kdekooter@gmail.com>
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Servlet filters are the best way to solve this.
Where do you get stuck with filters?

Cheers,
Kees de Kooter
http://www.boplicity.net


On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 23:55, Ray Holme <rholme@roadrunner.com> wrote:
> I have a few web applications being moved to tomcat. They all share some
> commonality - I use Firebird not MySQL; I built my own ConnectionManager
> long ago; and all three have an Application wide bean for shared
> resources. Each user has a "UserInfo" bean (whether or not they log in
> is important and can be found, but all functions require the common
> resources and it is a VERY convenient place to put them) from which
> hangs a DB-Connection bean and an Application bean. This enables
> resources to be pooled (connections) and shared (Application).
>
> Perhaps due to lack of knowledge, I try get the session's UserInfo
> (getAttribute(..)) and on failure intstantiate a new one in hundreds of
> servlets and/or JSP servlet codes sets (adding resources as needed).
>
> I am sure that there must be some reasonable way to have all of the
> servlets (no matter what form) go through some preliminary code, and
> some post processing in order not to write the same code into hundreds
> of places (and be sure the post processing routine which frees up
> resources is ALWAYS executed).
>
> I have tried to do this with filterchains but am failing so far - due to
> ignorance or whatever. I realize that I could modify the source and do
> it, but that seems counter productive as this seems like a fairly common
> need.
>
>
>
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