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Global variable: Security Token across processes instances

rangoo — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:01:13 GMT

Our Java Service Tasks make WebService (SOAP) calls. Services expect a security token( SAML 2.0) which expire after 20 mins. We renew the token after we validate it for expiry. We are currently generating these tokens(for the same system user) for each process instance. There is a limit for no. of

Re: Global variable: Security Token across processes instances

rangoo — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 22:02:35 GMT

Documentation says

there will be only one instance of that Java class created for the serviceTask it is defined on. All process-instances share the same class instance that will be used to call execute(DelegateExecution). This means that the class must not use any member variables and must be thread-safe, since it can be executed simultaneously from different threads. This also influences the way Field injection is handled.

If I use a singleton pattern to generate Tokens, I should be good ?

Re: Global variable: Security Token across processes instances

trademak — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 06:36:32 GMT

Yes that should be okay.

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