Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Application Development Guide

The memory Persistence Type

This persistence type is not designed for a production environment that requires session persistence. It provides no session persistence. However, you can configure it so that the session state in memory is written to the file system prior to server shutdown.

To specify the memory persistence type for a specific web application, edit the sun-web.xml file as in the following example. The persistence-type attribute is optional, but must be set to memory if included. This overrides the web container availability settings for the web application.

	<session-manager persistence-type="memory" />
			<property name="sessionFilename" value="sessionstate" />

The only manager property that the memory persistence type supports is sessionFilename, which is listed under manager-properties in Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Application Deployment Guide. The sessionFilename property specifies the name of the file where sessions are serialized and persisted if the web application or the server is stopped. To disable this behavior, specify an empty string as the value of sessionFilename.

For more information about the sun-web.xml file, see Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Application Deployment Guide.