Track currrent logged in user in jsf-adf

hi,
i need to track current logged-in user in my jsf-adf page. so that i can write their logout time back in db. i will update the table based on unique username.
kindly guide me.
Regards,
Edited by: user12217029 on Dec 14, 2009 9:59 PM
Edited by: user12217029 on Dec 14, 2009 10:39 PM

Hi,
We often use a userInfo managed bean with session scope that we initialize when the user logs-in. During the application it provides easy access to the userinfo, e.g. as an 'injected' property of another managed beans. On logout we can access this bean again (either by retrieving it from the session or as an injected property).
You could consider using a logging framework, e.g. log4j, with a JDBC Appender to write the data in the database. It's quite easy to filter only the logout messages.
Ciao
Aino

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