Servlet session management

1. What is session management in servlet?
2. What are different methods of session management in servlets?
3. What is session management in WT?
4. Which session management technique is best?

What is session management in servlet?

Servlet Session Management is a mechanism in Java used by Web container to store session information. Session tracking is a way to manage the data of a user, this is known as session management in servlet. Session in Java are managed through different ways, such as, HTTP Session API, Cookies, URL rewriting, etc.

What are different methods of session management in servlets?

Session in Java Servlet are managed through different ways, such as Cookies, HttpSession API, URL rewriting etc.

What is session management in WT?

Session Tracking is a way to maintain state (data) of an user. It is also known as session management in servlet. Http protocol is a stateless so we need to maintain state using session tracking techniques. Each time user requests to the server, server treats the request as the new request.

Which session management technique is best?

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Session: The Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is basically a protocol that provides a better online security. Web applications can use SSL to generate encrypted session keys to identify each session.