Oracle JDeveloper 11gR2 Cookbook

Using a session scope bean to preserve session-wide information

Information stored in the DBMS can be preserved for the duration of the user session by utilizing ADF business components to retrieve it, and a session scope managed bean to preserve it throughout the user session. Using this technique allows us to access session-wide information from any page in our application, without the need to create specific bindings for it in each page.

This recipe demonstrates how to access and preserve session-wide information by implementing the following use case. For each employee authenticated to access the application, its specific information will be maintained by a session-scoped managed bean.

Getting ready

You will need to create a skeleton ...