tomcat-redis-session-manager

Non-sticky session manager for Apache Tomcat with Redis and disk store implementations.

Build

Compile using maven

mvn compile package

Install

Copy tomcat-redis-session-manager-{version}.jar to TOMCAT_BASE/lib directory.

Redis store

Configure Tomcat by adding the following block to context.xml (or context block of server.xml)

<!-- RedisSessionManager 
Single host config attributes:
        host - defaults to localhost
        port - defaults to 6379
    Sentinels config attributes:
        sentinelMaster - master name
        sentinels - comma separated list of [sentinel-host:port]
    Config attributes:
        database - Redis DB to use (defaults to 0)
        timeout  - Redis connection and so timeout (in milliseconds, defaults to 2000)
        password - Redis auth password
        connectionAttempts - Number of attempts to connect to redis (defaults to 20).
        connectionAttemptDelay - Delay between attempts (in milliseconds, defaults to 500). NB: Make sure that total duration of connectionAttempts*attemptDelay is enough for new master to be chosen. 
        operationAttempts - Number of attempts to retry redis operation if it fails.  (defaults to 3)
        maxInactiveInterval - The default maximum inactive interval for Sessions. Is overridden by web.xml session-timeout setting (in seconds defaults to 1800) 
        sessionIdLength - The session id length of Sessions. (defaults to 16)
    Jedis pool config attributes (optional):
        poolXXX - where XXX are properties from GenericObjectPoolConfig see (https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-pool/apidocs/org/apache/commons/pool2/impl/GenericObjectPoolConfig.html)
-->

<Manager className="ee.neotech.tomcat.session.RedisSessionManager"  
	host="?"  
	port="?"  
	sentinelMaster="?"  
	sentinels="?"  
	password="?"/>  

Disk store (experimental)

Configure Tomcat by adding the following block to context.xml (or context block of server.xml)

<!-- DiskSessionManager 
	path - disk path to use as session storage -->
<Manager className="ee.neotech.tomcat.session.DiskSessionManager" path="?"/>