76 DB2 UDB V8 and WebSphere V5 Performance Tuning and Operations Guide
4.1 WebSphere session manager
The session manager is part of each Web container, and is responsible for
managing HTTP sessions, providing storage for session data, allocating session
IDs, and tracking the session ID associated with each client request through the
use cookies, URL rewriting, or SSL session identifier techniques. The session
manager allows the WebSphere Application Server administrator to dynamically
configure and tune the behavior of all HTTP sessions created by servlets within
its application server.
From an application development perspective, servlet and JSP code do not
interact directly with the session manager object. Rather, the session manager
suppo ...