Re: [Exist-development] What is the purpose of Session in Security Manager?

[Dmitriy S. <sha...@gm...>]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Adam Retter <ad...@ex...> wrote:

> Please can you explain what the purpose of Sessions in the Security
> Manager are? I see that you recently added these. It seems like the
> wrong place for them, Sessions should live outside the Security
> Manager if at all - I cant understand why we need them?
>

That sessions used by org.exist.protocolhandler.protocols.xmldb to share
authenticated subject between threads.


>
> Also in the test suite, I frequently see NPE's thrown by this new code -
> e.g. -
>

NPE should be fixed by
http://exist.svn.sourceforge.net/exist/?rev=15779&view=rev

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Dmitriy Shabanov