Changing the default session timeout of a spring web application

Question

I have to test a web application that is written by spring and jsp. The default session-timeout for the application is 30 min.

I want to reduce the session-timeout. For

Answer 1

Session timeout hierarchy:

• $tomcat_home/conf/web.xml
• $your_webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
• manual invocation of HttpSession.setMaxInactiveInterval(int)

Each subsequent entry overrides others above.