BI Publisher 11g - 16minutes Session Timeout

While working with BI Publisher 11g, the active session times out after 16mins which is quite annoying while you are in the middle of development.  Fortunately the session time can be increased, follow these steps to increase the session time out.

Back-up the original deployed .ear file

• Take a back-up of the xmlserver.ear file deployed on the server where OBIEE is installed.  The xmlpserver.ear file is available at the location -

         $MW_HOME/bifoundation/jee

Delete the deployed BI Publihser application

• Login to FMW Console, click on th Deployments.
• Lock the deployments using "Lock and Edit".
• Check the "bipublisher" box from the list of deployed applications and "Delete" the application.

Changes required to increase the Session Time Out

• From the OBIEE server, navigate to - $MW_HOME/bifoundation/jee
• Extract the file "xmlpserver.war" from "xmlpserver.ear" as below:

        $JAVA_HOME/bin/jar -xvf xmlpserver.ear xmlpserver.war

• The above will create the file "xmlpserver.war".
• Now, extract the folder WEB-INF from the war file using the command below:

         $JAVA_HOME/bin/jar -xvf xmlpserver.war WEB-INF

• This will create a folder WEB-INF.  Edit the file "web.xml" available under this folder to change the session time out as below, I change the time from 20mins to 90 mins.

• Save and exit the file.
• Now, update the xmlpserver.war file ,with the modified folder WEB-INF that contains the modified file web.xml as below:

$JAVA_HOME/bin/jar -uvf xmlpserver.war WEB-INF

• Now, update the xmlpserver.ear file, to replace the xmlpserver.war file as below:

$JAVA_HOME/bin/jar -uvf xmlpserver.ear xmlpserver.war

• Remove the below files/folders -
• xmlpserver.war
• WEB-INF

Install amended BI Publisher Application

• Login to FMW Admin Console and install the BI Publisher application providing the details as shown below:

• After the change, the 16 mins session time out warning should be replaced by your increased time limit as below: