How to set session timeout dynamically in Java web applications?

Question

I need to give my user a web interface to change the session timeout interval. So, different installations of the web application would be able to have different timeouts fo

Answer 1

Is there a way to set the session timeout programatically

There are basically three ways to set the session timeout value:

• by using the session-timeout in the standard web.xml file ~or~
• in the absence of this element, by getting the server's default session-timeout value (and thus configuring it at the server level) ~or~
• programmatically by using the HttpSession. setMaxInactiveInterval(int seconds) method in your Servlet or JSP.

But note that the later option sets the timeout value for the current session, this is not a global setting.