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J2EE™ Tutorial, The
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J2EE™ Tutorial, The

by Stephanie Bodoff, Dale Green, Kim Haase, Eric Jendrock, Monica Pawlan, Beth Stearns
March 2002
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
528 pages
10h 12m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Maintaining Client State

Many applications require a series of requests from a client to be associated with one another. For example, the Duke’s Bookstore application saves the state of a user’s shopping cart across requests. Web-based applications are responsible for maintaining such state, called a session, because the HTTP protocol is stateless. To support applications that need to maintain state, Java Servlet technology provides an API for managing sessions and allows several mechanisms for implementing sessions.

Accessing a Session

Sessions are represented by an HttpSession object. You access a session by calling the getSession method of a request object. This method returns the current session associated with this request, or, if the ...

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