David Dietrich's Business Technology Blog » Tomcat http://www.daviddietrich.com Business Technology Tips Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:58:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Setting the Session Timeout in Tomcat http://www.daviddietrich.com/2009/03/18/setting-the-session-timeout-in-tomcat/ http://www.daviddietrich.com/2009/03/18/setting-the-session-timeout-in-tomcat/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:34:27 +0000 David Dietrich http://www.daviddietrich.com/?p=91 You can specify the timeout of a session in the deployment descriptor of your web application (web.xml): 

<web-app>
  <session-config>
    <session-timeout>60</session-timeout>
  </session-config>

  ...
</web-app>

The number within the session-timout element must be expressed in minutes.

Be sure to restart Tomcat to take the new setting.

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