A user’s interaction with an application is called a session. A session can encompass several page requests. For example, in an ecommerce application, a session can involve browsing the products for sale, adding some of them to a shopping cart, entering payment and shipping information, and finalizing the transaction.
During a session, the user assigns values to page items, encompassing perhaps several pages, and sends these values to the server for processing. The item values for a given session comprise what is called its session state . In this chapter, you will ...
