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Oops assigning to Mircea instead of Mark....they're very close on the list of assignees

Added API for easy access to ICEfaces session monitor so that session timeout countdown can be reset programmatically. Usage example:

HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) servletRequest;
HttpSession session = request.getSession();
if (session != null)

Also added utility Servlet filter that resets the session timeout countdown for the requests is configured for in web.xml file. The filter allows application developers to declare selectively requests should update the session timeout. Usage example:

<filter>
<filter-name>Touch Session</filter-name>
<filter-class>com.icesoft.faces.webapp.http.servlet.TouchSessionFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>Touch Session</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/seam/remoting/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

SessionDispatcher.Monitor instance is put into the session so that TouchSessionFilter can access it. Because the class is not serializable it causes exceptions in app servers configured with session persistence.

[9/8/09 13:42:02:924 MDT] 0000429e SessionContex E SESN0040E: BackedHashtable:commonSetup - problem streaming object. Exception caught while trying to serialize session data for subsequent database write. The session data may be too large to serialize. Either put less data in the session or consider configuring Session Manager for MultiRow database mode.
[9/8/09 13:44:47:497 MDT] 0000003f SessionContex E Exception is: java.io.NotSerializableException: com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.facade.ServletContextFacade
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java(Compiled Code))
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java(Compiled Code))
at java.util.HashSet.writeObject(HashSet.java(Compiled Code))
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor207.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java(Compiled Code))
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java(Compiled Code))
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeWriteObject(ObjectStreamClass.java(Compiled Code))
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(ObjectOutputStream.java(Compiled Code))
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(ObjectOutputStream.java(Compiled Code))
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java(Compiled Code))
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields(ObjectOutputStream.java(Inlined Compiled Code))
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(ObjectOutputStream.java(Compiled Code))
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(ObjectOutputStream.java(Compiled Code))

Make SessionDispatcher.Monitor serializable.