Sessions problem when deploying to AS 10g (10.1.2.0.2)

Question

Hello,
I have a very simple Web Application where I have isolated an issue I have found. The application works fine when executed in JDeveloper 10g (10.1.2.2) but it does not work when deployed in the AS 10g (10.1.2.0.2). My Platform is Windows XP Professional x64.
The application has been created in JDeveloper (New >> Web Project) and contains:
- a simple jsp page (main.jsp) displaying a dummy message,
- a simple filter class (authFilter.java) which only has the following code in the doFilter method:
HttpServletRequest hreq = (HttpServletRequest)request;
System.out.println("*** session id = " + hreq.getSession().getId());
System.out.println("*** requested session id = " + hreq.getRequestedSessionId());
- a web deployment descriptor (web.xml) where the reference to the filter has been added:
<filter>
<filter-name>Filter1</filter-name>
<filter-class>myfilters.authFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>Filter1</filter-name>
<url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
When running this inside JDeveloper, the output is the following:
08/12/09 17:54:03 *** session id = ac1663b9231c2936edded7df423f9161c223ee0d4246
08/12/09 17:54:03 *** requested session id = null
08/12/09 17:54:08 *** session id = ac1663b9231c2936edded7df423f9161c223ee0d4246
08/12/09 17:54:08 *** requested session id = ac1663b9231c2936edded7df423f9161c223ee0d4246
08/12/09 17:54:10 *** session id = ac1663b9231c2936edded7df423f9161c223ee0d4246
08/12/09 17:54:10 *** requested session id = ac1663b9231c2936edded7df423f9161c223ee0d4246
Each time I reload the page in the browser I get two messages where the session id and the requested session id are equal and the same.
However, when running the application inside the AS, the output is the following (taken from the opmn/logs/OC4J~my_component~default_island~1):
08/12/09 17:56:58 *** session id = ac16322030d6da9410e6348449449a4cf1f0e65956cf
08/12/09 17:56:58 *** requested session id = null
08/12/09 17:57:01 *** session id = ac16322030d6bc42fa22332e41818aa6ece1fd371361
08/12/09 17:57:01 *** requested session id = null
08/12/09 17:57:02 *** session id = ac16322030d60895af4c8cc44aef9ff6e6e3b3fd2e04
08/12/09 17:57:02 *** requested session id = null
That is, each time the page is reloaded, a new session is created.
This problem is actually blocking me since I would like to use the session to store some data used for authentication in the filter (dynamic credentials). As a new session is being created for each access, the data stored in the session is lost and users cannot log on the application.
Thank you in advance,
Jorge.
Edited by: Jorge Pacios on 10-dic-2008 0:31
Platform information added.

Answer 1

It couldn't be such difficult.
I have the jar's, the drivers in, the jdbc url connection as
url="jdbc:oracle:thin:[USERNAME/PASSWORD]@IP:PORT:SID"/>
Also I can connect via sqlplus with this string conn.
The main error I get is
"Cannot lookup jdbc datasource.
The process domain was unable to lookup the TX datasource "jdbc/BPELServerDataSource"."