Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) Web Component Developer Exam Cram™ 2 (Exam 310-080)

Chapter 5. Session Management

Terms you'll need to understand:

• Session

• Session ID

• Session timeout

• Servlet attribute

• Session events

• Listeners

• URL rewriting

Techniques you'll need to master:

• Retrieve a session object across multiple requests to the same servlet or different servlets within the same Web app.

• Store objects in a session object.

• Retrieve objects from a session object.

• Respond to the event when a particular object is added to a session.

• Respond to the event when a session is created and destroyed.

• Expunge a session object.

• Know when a session object will be invalidated.

• Understand URL rewriting.

Session Management Overview

This section of the exam focuses on how servlets create and manage sessions. The container stores state information locally on the ...