Method Detail

• get

  Object get(String key)

  Get a property from the session

  Parameters:

  key - the name of the property desired.

• set

  void set(String key,
         Object value)

  Set a property in the session

  Parameters:

  key - the name of the property to set.

  value - the value of the property.

• remove

  void remove(String key)

  Remove a property from the session

  Parameters:

  key - the name of the property desired.

• getKeys

  Enumeration getKeys()

  Get an enumeration of the keys in this session

• setTimeout

  void setTimeout(int timeout)

  Set the session's time-to-live. This is implementation-specific, but basically should be the # of seconds of inactivity which will cause the session to time out and invalidate. "inactivity" is implementation-specific.

• getTimeout

  int getTimeout()

  Return the sessions' time-to-live.

  Returns:

  the timeout value for this session.

• touch

  void touch()

  "Touch" the session (mark it recently used)

• invalidate

  void invalidate()

  invalidate the session

• getLockObject

  Object getLockObject()

  Get an Object suitable for synchronizing the session. This method exists because different session implementations might provide different ways of getting at shared data. For a simple hashtable- based session, this would just be the hashtable, but for sessions which use database connections, etc. it might be an object wrapping a table ID or somesuch.