The two most widely used ways to track user sessions in Java EE are:

1. Cookies, by storing a cookie named JSESSIONID containing the session ID.
2. URL rewriting, by appending the session ID is to every URL.

When using cookies, since the browser only has one cookie containing the session ID, the session ID is shared by all tabs/windows (excluding incognito/secret windows). So, if you want to get something like this working, you would have to either:

• Rely on URL rewriting for session tracking
• Implement your own multi-cookie strategy

Best of luck.

I'm afraid it's going to take more than an example snippet. When I said: implement your own multi-cookie strategy, that's pretty much what I meant. To be clear: I would not recommend this approach, nor implement this myself. I would say URL rewriting is your best bet to get to a solution in a reasonable amount of time.

Well I would say the browser stores the cookies and don't care about which tab it sends the cookie.

I have found this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/968810/internet-explorer-8-session-shared-among-explorer-window

you may try it and report if that helps...

I don't think that is doable as the browser will share the cookies by default.

One other option has already been suggested in this thread. Have you looked into that option? Isn't that feasible?

Srinivasa Rao Ammina wrote:

 

hmm... I am not sure how this can be implemented, but I saw some of the banking sites (exmaple: www.icicibank.com) in which even we login with two diffrent users in two different TABS in a single browser window, sessions are not being shared among two diffrent users.

Previously:

The two most widely used ways to track user sessions in Java EE are:

....

URL rewriting, by appending the session ID is to every URL.