[gatein-dev] Session timeout configuration

Hi, I've been looking a bit at the Tomcat default configuration (the context.xml) and improved id : https://jira.jboss.org/browse/GTNPORTAL-1688 I was looking also at web.xml and a few war files have a session timeout value that is 30 minutes (portal.war and a 2 others). This value matches the default tomcat and jboss value declared in the default.xml. I would like to remove the value in web.xml because 1/ the change has no effect on the current configuration 2/ it simplifies the timeout configuration of those when touching the value that is set in the default web.xml When one portal access is done, not only the portal war file has sessions created by usually also the portlets that the portal access: an anonymous hit on the default page creates 3 sessions in 3 war files. This change would per 2/ allow to have change it by changing the default value. Also having a web.xml timeout different than the portal one does not make much sense as the war files are accessed by a request dispatch from the portal war. So any war file accessed this way will have its session bound to the portal one. A greater value does not have sense, a lower value can have sense but usually one would do that by specifying that value directly in the web.xml of the portlet application war file, so his configuration would not be much affected. Then is a setting for a particular war file is needed, one can still make the setup in any web.xml he wants. let me know if that makes sense to you Julien