Session Management Mechanism

[Joe San]

Guys,

Why is that we can get the information about which session management mechanism in employed from the request object as opposed to getting it from the session object???

[Joe San]

It sounds to me more logical for these methods to be in the HttpSession interface!

[Ulf Dittmer]

Why should a session care how the container manages it? It's not being done on a session-by-session basis, it's being done the same way for all sessions. So it makes sense that the method that gives this information is not implemented in each session.
[ April 25, 2007: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]

[Sergio Tridente]

Why more logical?

Where do you get the session from? HttpServletRequest.getSession()
How do you get the query string? HttpServletRequest.getQueryString()
How about all other URL/URI methods? HttpServletRequest.getRequestURL(), HttpServletRequest.getRequestURI(), etc.
How do you get cookies? HttpServletRequest.get Cookies()

Don't forget the method you are talking about are named: isRequestedSessionIdFromURL(), isRequestedSessionIdFromCookie().

Everything comes from the response. It looks logical to see those methods there, don't they?

[Joe San]

Sergio,

Your explanation now seems more logical to me. Thanks for the clarification!

[Joe San]

Does the exam test us in knowing the location of such methods like above? Do we have to be 100% strong with the API's?