Is session shared across JSPs in separate web applications?

[Kishore Kumar Reddy]

Hi



I have a jsp(say,one.jsp) and it requests another jsp(say,two.jsp).From here, it is redirected to another jsp(say,three.jsp and this is in another web application.) one.jsp and two.jsp both are in another web application. and all together are in same web server(Tomcat).

The problem is, I inserted a value in session object in one.jsp. I am trying to retrieve this value from three.jsp.I am unable to get this value.

How can I get this value.

[Bear Bibeault]

You can't. Sessions are not shared across web applications.

If they need to be this closely tied, why are they separate web apps?

[I adjusted the title of this topic to better represent the question.]

[Abimaran Kugathasan]

Can't we attach that object to a request object, and internally redirect it to the different web application in the same server?

[Bear Bibeault]

What is the point of attaching a scoped variable to the request if you are about to do a redirect which cause the current request to terminate?

[Kishore Kumar Reddy]

How data can be shared between different web-applications?

For this, I felt a solution.That is data(for example,userID) sent to another web-app, append this data value as query string while redirecting to anothe web-app.

response.sendRedirect("/anotherWeb-App/recepient.jsp?queryString=userID");

In recepient.jsp, use request.getParameter("userID").

Is it the right solution?
Are there any better solution?

[Abimaran Kugathasan]

Correct Bear! I'm wrong there! Thanks!

And, Kishore Kumar Reddy, with your method, we can only send String. What about other objects?

[Bear Bibeault]

Again I ask, if they need to share data to this extent, is designing them as separate web apps the appropriate design?

[Abimaran Kugathasan]

Bear Bibeault wrote:Again I ask, if they need to share data to this extent, is designing them as separate web apps the appropriate design?

So, there are no way to do this?

[William Brogden]

"no way to do this?"

Not with a session object as managed by the server but there are plenty of ways to share information between web applications.

For example - serialized object with a unique ID stored in a data base or on disk.

Bill

[Abimaran Kugathasan]

William Brogden wrote:"no way to do this?"

Not with a session object as managed by the server but there are plenty of ways to share information between web applications.

For example - serialized object with a unique ID stored in a data base or on disk.

Bill

Thanks, and it is possible only with the shared database?

[Paul Clapham]

Abimaran Kugathasan wrote:Thanks, and it is possible only with the shared database?

The two applications have to share data in some way. It doesn't specifically have to be an SQL database.

[Abimaran Kugathasan]

Paul Clapham wrote:
The two applications have to share data in some way. It doesn't specifically have to be an SQL database.

I got it, thanks!

[Pete Nelson]

Depending on how much data, and how sensitive the data is, a simple solution might be to use the javax.servlet.http.Cookie object. You may need to have

  cookie.setPath("/")  

to make the cookie work site wide (as opposed to just under the current directory or context).

I would only do this for a small amount of non-sensitive data. if you have a lot of data, or it contains sensitive information, I'd also advocate the single web application idea that several commentators have already hit on.