Question

I am new to JSP and Java Servlet. I am quite confusing about Session object. I saw session When I learned PHP session and cookie. Are there complete different things? And how a Session object is created, structured and used. This object is in JSP or Java Servlet? could somebody tell me this by words(like concept). In addition, in what situation a JSP page would be appropriate for?(when should I use a Java Servlet and when should I use a Java Servlet Page).For Java Servlet object, for example, ran an email site. There will be a lot of users. How does one Java Servlet object deal with interactions from so many browsers?(like hundreds of logging, reading, etc.)I know there should be only one copy of Java Servlet object exists. But why? If only one there, when is it created and destroyed. Ah… So many questions. If someone can help me I will really grateful for this. Thanks a million!

Answer 1

1. You can think about a session object as a file . every user have a session with id called jsessionid , the structure of a session is normally a map data structure which store key value

in Servlert you can construct a session object like this

HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);

then you can add item to the session like this

session.setAttribute(string ,object); ex : session.setAttribute("username","foo");

the session object exist in servlet and jsp , and btw jsp eventually is a servlet
but the difference is that when u want to use session in a jsp page there is no need to construct it. its defeind by default just use it

session.setAttribute(string,object);

1. JSP page used when a page contains a lot of html element and have a lot of design
   and jsp let you maintain the page easily on the other hand you can use servlet as jsp page
   but you will deal with every line o html source code

JSP is preferred as a view in the MVC model
and the servlet as controller .

the server keeps one object for each servlet and when a new request come the servlet object put the new request (client ) in a new thread so if you have 100 client at a time the is
100 thread in server . but you can configure the server to construct more than one object of a servlet .

i hope i could help u ..