session sharing akin to DCHP/C3P0?

[Bear Giles <bg...@coyotesong.com>]

Is there a standard session sharing solution akin to DCPH/C3P0?  Or at 
least a low-cost factory akin to DataSource for SQL Connections?
Or is that really bad for some reason?  I want to avoid 
re-authenticating for every request if possible.

Thanks,

Bear

Re: session sharing akin to DCHP/C3P0?

[Alexander Klimetschek <ak...@day.com>]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Bear Giles<bg...@coyotesong.com> wrote:
> Is there a standard session sharing solution akin to DCPH/C3P0?  Or at least
> a low-cost factory akin to DataSource for SQL Connections?
> Or is that really bad for some reason?  I want to avoid re-authenticating
> for every request if possible.

Creating a session (ie. login) is very fast in Jackrabbit. Thus it
allows you to create a session for each request in a web application,
and have them really per-enduser, ie. not using a single
database-admin-user as typically done with JDBC, which I would
strongly recommend:

- it makes it easier to write RESTful apps (which I consider a good thing (tm))
- access control can be done by the repository
- clearly separates actions of different users, because everything is
done in the transient space before you do save(), typically at the end
of the request

Regards,
Alex

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