JSP: storing Object to pageContext: old fashioned?

[bruce_phipps]

JSPs seem to offer more than one way of storing Objects to a session
context for session tracking purposes.

Both these seem to work Ok in my JSP code on Tomcat 5.0.x:

// using pageContext with session scope
pageContext.setAttribute("name", myObject, PageContext.SESSION_SCOPE);

// using the session context of HttpServlet
session.setAttribute("name",myObject);

Whats the difference here? Is there a preferred way to do this?

Thanks
Bruce

 

[Erwin Moller]

JSPs seem to offer more than one way of storing Objects to a session
context for session tracking purposes.

Both these seem to work Ok in my JSP code on Tomcat 5.0.x:

// using pageContext with session scope
pageContext.setAttribute("name", myObject, PageContext.SESSION_SCOPE);

// using the session context of HttpServlet
session.setAttribute("name",myObject);

Whats the difference here? Is there a preferred way to do this?

Thanks
Bruce

Hi Bruce,

Wrong newsgroup.
Your question is about J2EE, not JavaScript, so try comp.lang.java or
comp.lang.java.help instead.

To your question, my Javaskills are rotting a bit, but I think they are
identical, but setting the attribute directly on session makes a lot more
sense to me than doing it via PageContext.SESSIONSCOPE.

Regards,
Erwin Moller