How can I refresh portal session?

[paterczm]

Hello

I have an ajax application deployed as a portlet. The annoying thing is, that the user can get logged out while using it, because the page isn't reloaded and session timeout is reached.

Is there a way to force session refresh, so the session timeout counter gets reset?

Thanks and regards
Marek

[cybershastri2000]

Yea. Even I have this problem. If any one has a solution please let us know.

[julien1]

So you mean that if the user spends too much time using the ajax application it is logged out from the portal but this is not reflected (obviously).

[paterczm]

Yes, this is exactly what I mean. Too much time is 15 minutes by default.

So far I came up with 2 solutions, both not satisfying:

1. Rise session-timeout value in web.xml located in ...deploy/portal-server.war/WEB-INF (application level setting doesn't seem to work for portal). This makes the problem less annoying.
2. Make ajax calls in the background to some portal page once in a while (user will not get logged out as long as the page is open - not tested, just an idea)

[julien1]

another option would be that you setup a servlet in portal-server.war that makes a include of your real ajax servlet in your war file.

that would keep the portal session alive.

[ameo]

another option would be that you setup a servlet in portal-server.war that makes a include of your real ajax servlet in your war file.

that would keep the portal session alive.

Could you please descripte this a little more ?

[twalex]

I guess julien means you put the jar file that includes all your ajax servelt into the lib folder of portal-server.war?

"ameo" wrote:

another option would be that you setup a servlet in portal-server.war that makes a include of your real ajax servlet in your war file.

that would keep the portal session alive.

Could you please descripte this a little more ?