Forms sessions timeout

Team,
i was asked to look over the forms sessions timeout in oracle applications.can anyone provide me some valid points and solutions regarding that.
Thanks,
aram
Edited by: aram on Jul 28, 2011 1:44 PM

Pl identify OS, database and EBS versions. Pl see these MOS Docs
Tips and Queries for Troubleshooting Forms Session Timeout Issues          [Document 402674.1]
R12: Forms Timeout More Than 2 Hrs Is Not Working After R12 Upgrade          [Document 734077.1]
How To Fix The Forms Timeout Issue In Oracle Applications 11i          [Document 269884.1]
HTH
Srini

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hi
this can be done using a simple "Servlet Filters" which will check whether the user session is valid or not. so for every connect to the server the filter runs and redirects to the login page if the session has expired. here you can configure your filter to be activated for every URL or a patterns of urls.
u need servlet2.3 supported server for this.
hope this helps
shrini
I have an business j2ee application run on oc4j. When the session timeout declared on the web.xml expire, i want to redirect automaticaly the user to my login.jsp to force him to reconnect. I try j_security_chek, but i want to restart the business application at the top and not to the page which are request. Somebody know who i can do this mechanism. I try too special tag in jsp, this run very good but i have to repeate this call on every page. I look for an other simply mechanism to that
Thanks

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Re: [iPlanet-JATO] Re: session timeout when not submitting to a handler

Mark--
I know what's happening here, but am curious about your approach. You said
in an earlier email that you were generating links directly to JSPs, but
from what you are describing, you are generating JATO-style links to access
JATO pages. Nothing wrong with that, but there is a signficant difference.
Actually, it just occurred to me, I'm wondering what your URLs look like.
The way the request dispatching works in JATO is it ignores anything after
an initial "." in the final part of the URL path. For example, a request
for "/myapp/module1/MyPage.jsp" doesn't actually try to hit the JSP, instead
it tries to hit the JATO page "/myapp/module1/MyPage".
The end result is that you may think you are accessing a JSP directly, but
are instead accessing a JATO page. The reason the request dispatching works
this way is because it is illegal to access JATO JSPs directly, and there is
actually a (disabled) JATO feature that piggybacks on the use of the
dot-delimited URL.
So, now I need to understand your intent. I wasn't really sure why you were
generating direct JSP/page links to begin with. This works against the Type
II architecture JATO uses, in which all JATO requests go back to the
controller servlet.
If you are trying to design something like a menu page, you may have thought
that it was burdensome to create a number of HREF children, plus implement
event handlers for each of them. This definitely would be burdensome beyond
just a handful of links, but this is why JATO provides other mechanisms for
doing what I'll call here "polymorphic HREFs".
Assuming this menu page scenario, the easiest thing to do is to simply use
one HREF child on the page, and add a value to it each time it is rendered
that distinguishes it from the other instances on the page. In your event
handler for the HREF, you simply check this value and use it to decide which
page to forward to. You can add a value to an HREF or Button by using the
"addExtraValue()" method. Or, if you are using JATO 1.2, you can add extra
query string NVPs right in the JSP document using the "queryParams"
attribute of the <jato:href> tag. Thus, your one HREFchild and event
handler become "polymorphic" because what they do depends on the context in
which they are invoked.
Now, I still don't have confirmation that this is what you were trying to
do, so until I do, let me explain the exception you're seeing. JATO assumes
that when a request comes in for a page that includes the pageAttributes
NVP, it is a request coming from a previously generated JATO page. Because
of the way JATO works, this means that the request dispatching code should
send the request back to the originally rendered page. For example, if Page
A renders an HREF, which the user then activates, JATO sends the request
back to Page A for handling. All of the HREFs and forms generated during
rendering of Page A actually refer back to Page A, regardless of where those
links or buttons actually pass the request in their event handlers/Command
objects.
So, what's happening when you include the pageAttributes in your HREFs is
that JATO is assuming that a request is being sent to the target page, with
the assumption that the target page has a mechanism in place to handle the
request. This assumption relies on the specification of the "originator" of
the request being specified in the request. For links/HREFs, the name and
value of the HREF is sent along with the request. For forms, the name and
value of the button that was pressed are sent in the request. JATO uses the
presence of these name/value pairs to decide which event handler, or which
Command object, to invoke to handle the request.
The exception you are receiving is saying that there was no object on the
target page that indicated it could handle the request. This is to be
expected, since you have not specified a query parameter that indicates
which CommandField child is responsible the request. However, this is where
I see the disconnect, because that is not what I believe you were trying to
do (as explained above).
So now, given all the information above, can you tell me what you're trying
to accomplish, and whether or not the info I've given you has helped you to
design a mechanism more in line with a JATO approach? If not, given that I
understand what you're trying to do, I can offer a more concrete solution.
Todd
----- Original Message -----
From: <Mark_Dubinsky@p...>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 2:54 PM
Subject: [iPlanet-JATO] Re: session timeout when not submitting to a handler
This is the exception we get:
(And BTW, leaving a blank value for the pageAttributes doesn't help)
[05/Nov/2001 17:49:18:4] error: <portalServlet.processRequest>
javax.servlet.ServletException: The request was not be handled by the
specified handler
at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Native Method)
at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Compiled Code)
at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Compiled Code)
at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Compiled Code)
at
javax.servlet.ServletException.<init>(ServletException.java:107)
at
com.putnaminvestments.common.jato.ApplicationServletBase.dispatchRequ
est(Compiled Code)
at
com.putnaminvestments.common.jato.ApplicationServletBase.processReque
st(Compiled Code)
at
com.putnaminvestments.bp.portal.portalServlet.processRequest(Compiled
Code)
at
com.putnaminvestments.common.jato.ApplicationServletBase.doPost(Compi
led Code)
at
com.putnaminvestments.common.jato.ApplicationServletBase.doGet(Compil
ed Code)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(Compiled Code)
at com.putnaminvestments.bp.bpServletBase.service(Compiled
Code)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(Compiled Code)
at
com.netscape.server.servlet.servletrunner.ServletInfo.service(Compile
d Code)
at
com.netscape.server.servlet.servletrunner.ServletRunner.execute(Compi
led Code)
at com.kivasoft.applogic.AppLogic.execute(Compiled Code)
at com.kivasoft.applogic.AppLogic.execute(Compiled Code)
at com.kivasoft.thread.ThreadBasic.run(Native Method)
at com.kivasoft.thread.ThreadBasic.run(Native Method)
at com.kivasoft.thread.ThreadBasic.run(Native Method)
at com.kivasoft.thread.ThreadBasic.run(Native Method)
at com.kivasoft.thread.ThreadBasic.run(Compiled Code)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Compiled Code)
--- In iPlanet-JATO@y..., "Todd Fast" <Todd.Fast@S...> wrote:
Mark--
Initially we tried to add the pageAttributes NVP as well, but that
was
causing an exception, so we stopped doing that.That's odd--what was the exception?
Our problem now is that when the SessionTimes out it does not go
to
onSessionTimeout method as in processRequestMethod of the
ApplicationServletBase it looks for pageAttributes. If it is notnull
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and a new one been created, versus the initial creation of thesession.
Is there any work around for this? Maybe you can suggest how topass
the pageAttributes without causing the initial exception?Definitely--let me know what the exception was and I'll be able tosuggest
something. However, it shouldn't really be any harder thanappending a
"jato.pageAttributes=" empty NVP on the HREF.
Todd
Todd Fast
Senior Engineer
Sun/Netscape Alliance
todd.fast@s...
For more information about JATO, please visit:
http://developer.iplanet.com/tech/appserver/framework/index.jsp

OK, here's what I'm trying to do: We have, like you said, a menu
page. The pages that it goes to and the number of links are all
variable and read from the database. In NetD we were able to create
URLs in the form
pgXYZ?SPIDERSESSION=abcd
so this is what I'm trying to replicate here. So the URL that works
is
pgContactUs?GXHC_GX_jst=fc7b7e61662d6164&GXHC_gx_session_id_=cc9c6dfa5
601afa7
which I interpreted to be the equivalent of the old Netd way. Our
javascript also loads other frames of the page in the same manner.
And I believe the URL-rewritten frame sources of a frameset look like
this too.
This all worked except for the timeout problem. In theory we could
rewrite all URLs to go to a handler, but that would be...
inconvenient.

Apex Version 4.2: Why doesn't the session timeout parameter settings work?

Prior to an upgrade to Apex Version 4.2.0.00.27, we ran Apex Version 4.1 in our environment. This is on a platform using Oracle Database Enterprise Edition 11g R2 on Windows Server 2008. The session timeout parameters (set for a single application using "Shared Components" -> "Security Attributes") were set to the following:
Maximum Session Time: 1 day
Maximum Session Idle Time: 8 hours
This worked with no problems in Apex 4.1; our user would leave a data entry form open for several hours, complete the data entry then submit the page. Now, with the upgrade to Apex 4.2, doing the same thing causes the system to redirect to the login page and aborting any edits or new data entered into the form previously.
I have tried to set both session parameters to ZERO (0) which is what the documentation explains is the equivallent to "no timeout" but that didn't work as well.
I have reset the session control parameters to what they were before the upgrade and my session times out before the time values I set. (on the version 4.2 upgraded instance).
Why was the session timeout parameters I set ignored by the system? Can anyone else out there confirm/repeat the problem I observed?

Hi Richard,
You probable have it ok, but the time should be in seconds.
Kees

Implementing session timeout in JSP - - Urgent help !

Hi
I have a requirement where I need to write a session timeout functionality in a JSP such that the page is redirected to a different page if there is no activity for 5 min.
I tried the following :
1.On the onload of my JSP, i created a new session from the current request using the following code snippet :
          HttpSession pSession = request.getSession(true);
          pSession.setAttribute("loggedin","true");
          pSession.setMaxInactiveInterval(10);
2. Then on any action performed on the JSP, i called the collowing JS function before invoking the server side code.
/** function to check the user session **/
function fnChkSession()
     alert('Inside check session');
     <%
          try
               System.out.println("The value of the session var loggedin : "+pSession.getAttribute("loggedin").toString());
               System.out.println(" getMaxInactiveInterval() value is : "+pSession.getMaxInactiveInterval());
          catch (Exception e)
               System.out.println("** Inside the fnChkSession exception catch block **");
          if (pSession.getValue("loggedin") == null)
     %>
          alert('Session has expired');
          document.forms[0].submit();
     <% } %>
But when I execute this code ,even after 10 secs my session seems to be alive.I can retrieve the session attribute after 10s.
I also tried setting the session-timeout value in the web.xml. It didnt work.
Can anyone pls help me on how to proceed further on this.
Thanks
Arun B

You are confusing java with javascript.
These two things are not the same.
The lifecycle goes something like this
1 - Request is made to server
2 - Java/JSP runs java code, produces HTML page
3 - java stops running
4 - html is sent to browser, and javascript starts running.
You cannot call java code from browser events (such as onload, onclick, onchange...) The only way to run java code again is to submit a request (normally by submitting a form, or clicking a link. )
If you want a javascript solution, in IE, use the window.setTimeout() method to execute some javascript code after a certain period of time.
A more generic approach would be to use the refresh header. Set the timeout for the refresh header to be 300 seconds. If the user stays on the same page for more than 5 minutes, it will redirect to the new page.
Hope this helps,
evnafets

Netlet Session timeout

Does anybody in this forum have problem with the netlet session timeout?
We use Netlet to run Citrix applications behind the portal. The Netlet session gets killed at any moment in the range of 6 hours to 40 hours in the production environment. We use portal6.0 with NetletKeepAlive patch installed. Session timeout and idle timeout are set to 48 hours, keep alive interval in Netlet is 1 minute.
For the user to access the portal (and application thereafter), he has to go through proxy server at his end, and firewall at server side.
Without proxy and firewall in our test environment , the Netlet session stays much longer and is more predictable. Could the proxy server and firewall complicate the session? Thanks.

Pl post details of OS and EBS versions.
These docs may also help
How To Fix The Forms Timeout Issue In Oracle Applications 11i (Doc ID 269884.1)
How to Control iStore Session Timeout (Doc ID 377436.1)
HTH
Srini

Need to warn user of session timeout in BSP app hap_document......

Hi,
We're using the hap_document app to allow employees to change appraisal documents in ESS and for managers to create them thru MSS....
When employees have their documents open for more than 1 hour, the next time they click on save, it takes them to the session timeout (ICM, version 6040, module icxxthr_mt.c)....
Is there a way to add a timer to the document.htm or body.htm pages in the application to start a timer, reset it each time user clicks on save, and warn him with a popup when we're within 5 minutes to a timeout...
I've read messages on the BSP thread that say...
"Document.htm is split in two frames. One hidden to enable session handling, the second one visible which contains the document.
So the document.htm is not refreshed, the second frame is refreshed. I tried your approach as well and was not able to tie the script to the second frame.
Regards and Groetjes,
Maurice"
I've also read Thomas's stateful/stateless timeout parameters article...
Can anyone help me with where I would put the timer javascript code (if not in document.htm or body.htm) and which timeout parameter to check...
Thanks for all your help,
Venkatesh

Look at the sample code..Will solve your problem..
<%@page language="abap" %>
<%@extension name="htmlb" prefix="htmlb" %>
<script type="text/javascript">
function remind() {
var msg = "Your Session will be timed out in 10 Secs";
alert(msg);
</script>
<htmlb:content design="design2003" >
<%
data: v_rem type string.
DATA: port TYPE STRING.
port = request->get_header_field( if_http_header_fields_sap=>server_port ).
DATA: services TYPE TABLE OF ICM_SINFO.
CALL FUNCTION 'ICM_GET_INFO' TABLES SERVLIST = services.
FIELD-SYMBOLS: <service> TYPE ICM_SINFO.
DATA: wait TYPE STRING.
READ TABLE services ASSIGNING <service> WITH KEY service = port.
wait = <service>-KEEPALIVE - 10.
CONDENSE wait.
concatenate `'remind(` wait `)',2000` into v_rem.
%>
<htmlb:page onLoad = "setTimeout(<%= v_rem %>)"
              title = " " >
    <htmlb:form>
      <htmlb:textView text   = "Hello World!"
                      design = "EMPHASIZED" />
      <htmlb:button text    = "Press Me"
                    onClick = "myClickHandler" />
    </htmlb:form>
</htmlb:page>
</htmlb:content>
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Raja T

ADF Faces : session timeout best practice

hi
I made these small modifications to the web.xml file in the SRDemoSample application:
(a) I changed the login-config from this ...
<login-config>
    <auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
    <form-login-config>
      <form-login-page>infrastructure/SRLogin.jspx</form-login-page>
      <form-error-page>infrastructure/SRLogin.jspx</form-error-page>
    </form-login-config>
</login-config>... to this
<login-config>
    <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
</login-config>(b) I changed the session-timeout to 1 minute.
<session-config>
    <session-timeout>1</session-timeout>
</session-config>Please consider this scenario:
(1) Run the UserInterface project of the SRDemoSample application in JDeveloper.
(2) Authenticate using "sking" and password "welcome".
(3) Click on the "My Service Requests" tab.
(4) Click on a "Request Id" like "111". You should see a detail page titled "Service Request Information for SR # 111" that shows detail data on the service request.
(5) Wait for at least one minute for the session to timeout.
(6) Click on the "My Service Requests" tab again. I see the same detail page as in (4), now titled "Service Request Information for SR #" and not showing any detail data.
question
What is the best practice to detect such session timeouts and handle them in a user friendly way in an ADF Faces application?
thanks
Jan Vervecken

Hi,
no. Here's the content copied from a word doc:
A frequent question on the JDeveloper OTN forum, and also one that has been asked by customers directly, is how to detect and graceful handle user session expiry due to user inactivity.
The problem of user inactivity is that there is no way in JavaEE for the server to call the client when the session has expired. Though you could use JavaScript on the client display to count
down the session timeout, eventually showing an alert or redirecting the browser, this goes with a lot of overhead. The main concern raised against unhandled session invalidation due to user
inactivity is that the next user request leads to unpredictable results and errors messages. Because all information stored in the user session get lost upon session expiry, you can't recover the
session and need to start over again. The solution to this problem is a servlet filter that works on top of the Faces servlet. The web.xml file would have the servlet configured as follows
1.     <filter>
2.         <filter-name>ApplicationSessionExpiryFilter</filter-name>
3.         <filter-class>
4.             adf.sample.ApplicationSessionExpiryFilter
5.         </filter-class>
6.         <init-param>
7.             <param-name>SessionTimeoutRedirect</param-name>
8.             <param-value>SessionHasExpired.jspx</param-value>
9.         </init-param>
10.     </filter>
This configures the "ApplicationSessionExpiryFilter" servlet with an initialization parameter for the administrator to configure the page that the filter redirects the request to. In this
example, the page is a simple JSP page that only prints a message so the user knows what has happened. Further in the web.xml file, the filter is assigned to the JavaServer Faces
servlet as follows
1.     <filter-mapping>
2.             <filter-name>ApplicationSessionExpiryFilter</filter-name>
3.             <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
4.         </filter-mapping>
The Servlet filter code compares the session Id of the request with the current session Id. This nicely handles the issue of the JavaEE container implicitly creating a new user session for the incoming request.
The only special case to be handled is where the incoming request doesn't have an associated session ID. This is the case for the initial application request.
1.     package adf.sample;
2.
3.     import java.io.IOException;
4.
5.     import javax.servlet.Filter;
6.     import javax.servlet.FilterChain;
7.     import javax.servlet.FilterConfig;
8.     import javax.servlet.ServletException;
9.     import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
10.     import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
11.     import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
12.     import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
13.
14.
15.     public class ApplicationSessionExpiryFilter implements Filter {
16.         private FilterConfig _filterConfig = null;
17.
18.         public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) throws ServletException {
19.             _filterConfig = filterConfig;
20.         }
21.
22.         public void destroy() {
23.             _filterConfig = null;
24.         }
25.
26.         public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response,
27.                              FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
28.
29.
30.             String requestedSession =   ((HttpServletRequest)request).getRequestedSessionId();
31.             String currentWebSession = ((HttpServletRequest)request).getSession().getId();
32.
33.             boolean sessionOk = currentWebSession.equalsIgnoreCase(requestedSession);
34.
35.             // if the requested session is null then this is the first application
36.             // request and "false" is acceptable
37.
38.             if (!sessionOk && requestedSession != null){
39.                 // the session has expired or renewed. Redirect request
40.                 ((HttpServletResponse) response).sendRedirect(_filterConfig.getInitParameter("SessionTimeoutRedirect"));
41.             }
42.             else{
43.                 chain.doFilter(request, response);
44.             }
45.         }
46.
47.     }
This servlet filter works pretty well, except for sessions that are expired because of active session invalidation e.g. when nuking the session to log out of container managed authentication. In this case my
recommendation is to extend line 39 to also include a check if security is required. This can be through another initialization parameter that holds the name of a page that the request is redirected to upon logout.
In this case you don't redirect the request to the error page but continue with a newly created session.
Ps.: For testing and development, set the following parameter in web.xml to 1 so you don't have to wait 35 minutes
1.     <session-config>
2.         <session-timeout>1</session-timeout>
3.     </session-config> Frank
Edited by: Frank Nimphius on Jun 9, 2011 8:19 AM

Portal session timeout judge

Hi everybody,
I have a question about portal session timeout. Now we have a javascript for session timeout in Masthead iview, which can increase the time for the active user. It uses EPCM to rase the event. But our page has four iveiws, and there is a iview form that use the javascript to submit the request, and don't refresh the whole page, so it can't call our session timeout javascript to increase the time.
Whether we can call the javascript from other iviews? Or do we have other ways to do the session timeout judge and increase the time by user's activity in sap portal ?
Thanks

Hi,
Try to subscribe to EPCM events on all navigations in your code, which will in turn update the timer
EPCM.subscribeEvent("urn:com.sapportals:navigation", "Navigate", pop);
EPCM.subscribeEvent("urn:com.foo.bar.myapp", "myEvent", pop);
You can also call the update timer method (in masthead) from your I view form code using AJAX, which will be more simpler.
Regards,
Santhosh

Handle Session Timeout

I am using JDeveloper 11.1.1.6.
I am trying to gracefully handle session time outs in ADF. My application has been experiencing the 'canned' ADF session timeout popup when I am logged into my application and the session has timed out. That same popup is rendered even if I am sitting at my login page but haven't signed in.
I have followed Frank Nimphius's guidance as explained in the following forum to have my application re-direct to the login page after session timeout. That works great thanks to his well detailed document.
ADF Faces : session timeout best practice
The concern I have now is if I am sitting at my login page and my session times out, the application stays at the login page. I now type my credentials and click log in. Because the application thinks my session is timed out, I am taken back to the login page. Ideally I wouldn't think the login page would hold a session. Do you have any guidance on how I can get around this.

Hi,
what about using programmatic login, in which case the login form is part of a public page (see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2012/12-jan/o12adf-1364748.html for an example you can download)
Frank

Sun One w/htaccess, need to find session timeout

All,
Users login to web site using htaccess basic authentication, need to find out if there is a setting for session timeout.
Thanks.

Hello,
Although I am a bit unclear about the question. But please see if the following helps;
I can query the v$session to know about the SID. Here is a simple example;
select sid,
substr(username,1,15) "DB UserName",
substr(osuser,1,15) "OS UserName",
substr(command,1,3) CMD,
substr(machine,1,10) Machine,
terminal, process, status,
substr(program,1,50) "OS Program Name"
from v$session
where type = 'USER'
order by usernameHere is a sample output;
            SID DB UserName     OS UserName     CMD MACHINE    TERMINAL         PROCESS      STATUS   OS Program Name
              7                 SYSTEM          0   ORAAPPPROD ORAAPPPROD       976          ACTIVE   ORACLE.EXE
              8                 SYSTEM          0   ORAAPPPROD ORAAPPPROD       3548         ACTIVE   ORACLE.EXE
Additionally you can also review Oracle Metalink Script: How To Identify The apps User Using The O/S PID For Forms Users In 11i Doc ID: Note:185762.1.
https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/f?p=130:14:38346007578631471::::p14_database_id,p14_docid,p14_show_header,p14_show_help,p14_black_frame,p14_font:NOT,185762.1,1,1,1,helvetica
Hope it helps. Maybe others might add in this.
Adith

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