Sharing session data between contexts in Tomcat

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That article is indeed heavily outdated.

On Tomcat 5.5 and 6.0 you can just set emptySessionPath attribute to true in the <Connector> element in /conf/server.xml.

<Connector ... emptySessionPath="true">

On Tomcat 7.0 this has changed because this is now configureable from the Servlet 3.0 API on. It’s then on Tomcat’s side configureable by setting sessionCookiePath to / in <Context> element in any responsible context.xml file.

<Context ... sessionCookiePath="/">

As said, there’s a new Servlet 3.0 API which allows you to configure the session cookie through the standard API. You can do it either declaratively by adding the following to the web.xml:

<session-config>
    <cookie-config>
        <path>/</path>
    </cookie-config>
</session-config>

or programmatically by SessionCookieConfig which is available by ServletContext#getSessionCookieConfig().

getServletContext().getSessionCookieConfig().setPath("/");

You could do this in ServletContextListener#contextInitialized() or HttpServlet#init().

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