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Session Management

Session management is very important for performance. One key factor in managing your sessions efficiently is using a process automation tool (CA Process Automation or CA Workflow) efficiently, because these tools create and manage sessions.

Effective use of web service sessions is crucial for maintaining throughput as your environment scales up. Creating a web service session is a non-trivial task which requires multiple invocations of authentication and authorization logic and accounts of the majority of time and effort spent when using web services. Design CA Process Automation processes or CA Workflow process definitions and other web service clients to avoid creating extra web service sessions. Exception handling should create a session only when the exception is known to be the result of an invalid or expired session.

Important! CA Workflow is no longer being enhanced, and its maintenance and technical support are scheduled to be discontinued as of December 31, 2013. Therefore, we strongly recommend using CA Process Automation as your process automation tool.

Note: For details about using CA Process Automation or CA Workflow, see the Integration Guide.