light-4j framework build upon undertow server. Undertow manager session in single node module and doesn't support distributed session management.

Light-session aims to provide a common infrastructure for managing sessions in distributed environment.

Light-session provide different types of repository for distributed session management which include Hazelcast, JDBD and Redis.

session-core --- core components and interfaces for the session management. It should be included any type of repository. And this module also provide in memory session manager for single node.

hazelcast-mananger --- use hazelcast as repository for session management. Session will be persisted in the hazelcast distributed cache repository.

jdbc-manager --- use RDBMS database as repository for session management. Session will be persisted in the database tables.

redis-manager --- use redis as repository for session management. Session will be persisted in the redis in-memory data structure store.

In memory session manager provided in the session-core module. System use the Caffeine as in memory cache to store the session:

https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine

In server.yml file:

- com.networknt.session.SessionManager:
  - com.networknt.session.MapSessionManager

System use the Hazelcast as distributed cache repository to store the session:

In server.yml file:

- com.networknt.session.SessionManager:
  - com.networknt.session.hazelcast.HazelcastSessionManager

System provide two set of DDL script, one for Oracle, another for postgres. User need create the tables in the database before use the session management:

In server.yml file:

- com.networknt.session.SessionManager:
   - com.networknt.session.jdbc.JdbcSessionManager

Below is the sample for the script:

DROP table IF EXISTS light_session;
DROP table IF EXISTS light_session_attributes;


 CREATE TABLE light_session (
    session_id VARCHAR2(100) NOT NULL,
    creation_time bigint NOT NULL,
    last_access_time bigint NOT NULL,
    max_inactive_interval int,
    expiry_time bigint,
    principal_name VARCHAR(100),
    PRIMARY KEY(session_id)
  );




  CREATE TABLE light_session_attributes (
   session_id VARCHAR2(100) NOT NULL,
   attribute_name VARCHAR(200) NOT NULL,
   attribute_bytes BYTEA,
   PRIMARY KEY(session_id, attribute_name)
  );

In server.yml file:

- com.networknt.session.SessionManager:
  - com.networknt.session.redis.RedisSessionManager

User need start redis server before build and test the application

docker run --name some-redis -p 6379:6379 -d redis redis-server --appendonly yes

docker exec -it some-redis bash

/data# redis-cli ping

Result should be: PONG