[Helma-user] Suppressing Session creation?

[Michael Platzer]

Hi Joshua,
> Am I correct in thinking that Helma attaches a Session to each visitor 
> whether or not I save anything to the Session? If so, is there a way to 
> suppress this behavior for a specific page? E.g., if I wanted to 
> dynamically generate some badge code--my page output would be getting 
> included as a JavaScript or image or some such on someone else's site, 
> and I would have no need to keep session information for such requests 
> (interesting though it might be for snooping about people's browsing 
> habits).
>   
There is currently no way to suppress the creation of sessions for a
single page, nor for a whole application. One "trick" would be to
implement your own SessionManager, and to use that one instead of
helma.framework.core.SessionManager by setting the
sessionManagerImpl-configuration accordingly.
->
http://adele.helma.org/source/viewcvs.cgi/helma/src/helma/framework/core/Application.java?annotate=1.198&cvsroot=hop#415
> Also, do Sessions just hang out in memory or are they written to disk?
>   
The helma.framework.core.SessionManager is solely memory-based. Only if
"persistentSessions=true" is specified in app.properties, these sessions
will be serlialised to disk when stopping and starting the application.

  michi