Keep shared=true after redeploy

Question

Hi,
I have a secure web site. In my production environment I need to set shared=true for my web-app(s) in the secure-web-site.xml configuration file (\j2ee\home\config). I noticed that every time I redeploy the EAR, I need to add again the shared attribute for my application in the xml file. Of course a restart of the application server is next necessary.
Is there any way to make this configuration permanent (deployment descriptor or system level setting)? Is there any way to set the shared setting from the Enterprise Manager console?
Thank you for the attention,
Alex

Answer 1

Hi again,
After reading some additional information, namely:
Oracle® Containers for J2EE / Configuration and Administration Guide / 10g Release 3 (10.1.3) / Part No. B14432-01
How to Share HTTP and HTTPS Session [ID 401545.1]
Session Information Of All Applications Are Lost When Redeploying With Dcmctl Command [ID 273230.1]
I guess the answer is evident. To quote ID 401545.1:
"Please take note this capability cannot be enabled from deployments descriptors (in the ear or war file) and it cannot be set using the AS Console."
I have written that I need shared=true but in fact I only need it because otherwise my SSL session breaks too often (and doesn't respect the timeout interval)!
Playing around with the shared attribute is the only remedy I have found so far. I haven't done a review of each packet that is transmitted but according to the SSL debug log everything seems fine. What I understood from the documentation was that some browsers threat sessions in different manner and sometimes they start a new session before the timeout.
My tests with Firefox and Internet Explorer both fail in keeping a SSL session running normally. I don't know if there is a special setting for this in the browser and I couldn't catch a fixed interval for session expiration. My deployment description is fixed to 15-30 minutes but sometimes a session will timeout in a minute or two.
Does anybody have had a problem with SSL session timeout on Oracle AS 10.1.3 ?