jersey security and session management

java jersey
Adhir picture Adhir · May 26, 2009 · Viewed 86.3k times · Source

Is there a way to get session management or security programatically in Jersey, e.g. web-application session management? Or are transactions, sessions, and security all handled by the container in which the Jersey application is deployed?

Answer

Jack Cox picture Jack Cox · May 28, 2009

Session management is the purview of the container in which Jersey is deployed. In most production cases, it will be deployed within a container that performs session management.

The code below is a simple example of a jersey resource that gets the session object and stores values in the session and retrieves them on subsequent calls.

@Path("/helloworld")
public class HelloWorld {

    @GET
    @Produces("text/plain")
    public String hello(@Context HttpServletRequest req) {

        HttpSession session= req.getSession(true);
        Object foo = session.getAttribute("foo");
        if (foo!=null) {
            System.out.println(foo.toString());
        } else {
            foo = "bar";
            session.setAttribute("foo", "bar");
        }
        return foo.toString();


    }
}

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