Database Session Persistence
1.0

This feature enables persistence of HTTP sessions to a datasource using JDBC. Persisting HTTP session data to a database allows recovery of the data after a server restart or unexpected server failure. Failover of HTTP sessions can be achieved by configuring multiple servers to persist data to the same location

Enabling this feature

To enable the Database Session Persistence 1.0 feature, add the following element declaration into your server.xml file, inside the featureManager element:

<feature>sessionDatabase-1.0</feature>

Feature configuration elements

classloading
httpSession
httpSessionDatabase
transaction

Features that this feature enables

jdbc-4.0
jdbc-4.1
jdbc-4.2
jdbc-4.3
jndi-1.0

Supported Java versions

JavaSE-1.8
JavaSE-11.0
JavaSE-17.0
JavaSE-21.0
JavaSE-23.0

Developing a feature that depends on this feature

If you are developing a feature that depends on this feature, include the following item in the Subsystem-Content header in your feature manifest file.

com.ibm.websphere.appserver.sessionDatabase-1.0; type="osgi.subsystem.feature"