The following topic describes the session time out configuration.

When implementing form-based authentication, you should be aware of how time-outs are handled. A default servlet session time-out of 20 minutes is set in <WT_HOME>/codebase.war/WEB-INF/web-orig.xml. Additionally, you can provide an authentication time-out that is set within the form-based authentication solution. The authentication time-out is used whenever the form-based authentication solution is used and does not rely on the time-out of a servlet session.

You can change the default session time out as follows: