Suppose you could try to make your own session object and then issue the
session object as a multipartrequest to the other app via POST method.
But that is not what you want, but it might work. Just make sure the class
file you use for datapassing is serializable and resides in orion/lib
Johan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: Share sessions????
> Hi Tomas,
>
> AFAIK, you can't do what you want to do, as sessions are not shared
> between different applications.
> When you try...
> disp=context.getRequestDispatcher("/app2/app2.jsp");
> disp.forward(request,response);
> from inside your "app1" application, you are really forwarding to
> "/app1/app2/app2.jsp", hence the 404 not found. And when you try
> sendRedirect(), you are asking the BROWSER to issue a call to the second
> page, and the browser knows nothing about server side sessions so that's
> why your attribute doesn't get through.
> Unless both jsp pertain to the same application, I don't know of any
> standard way of directly sharing objects between webapps. You might have
> to use something external. I guess the philosophy behind that is "if
> they have to share, they should be part of the same webapp" which can be
> seen, IMO, as a security feature and a limitation.
> As a non standard way of doing it, you might be able to use the "parent"
> attribute in the orion server.xml configuration
> (http://www.orionserver.com/docs/server.xml.html), but I'm not sure it
> allows you to do what you want to, as I have never used it.
> Does anyone know if there is a standard solution for this?
> regards,
> Dan
>
>
>
> Tomas Anderson wrote:
> >
> > Hello.
> > I hope someone can help me with this basic question.
> >
> > I have 2 separate applications, app1 and app2. One jsp
> > and one servlet in each.
> > From the jsp I send some parameters to the servlet. I
> > prosess them and put the answer in a session variable
> > like this:
> >
> > servlet1.java:
> > String strP1 = request.getParameter("param1");
> > String strP2 = request.getParameter("param2");
> >
> > ... procsess them
> > String strAnswer = strP1 + strP2;
> >
> > Get the session.
> > session = request.getSession(true);
> > Put a session variable.
> > session.setAttribute("result", strAnswer);
> > ...
> >
> > Now I want to send the session to the other
> > application, app2, where the jsp file reads the
> > session variable and displays it.
> >
> > jsp2.jsp:
> > <%
> > String str = (String)session.getAttribute("result");
> > out.println("result: " + str);
> > %>
> >
> > I have put shared="true" in both web-app tags.
> > <web-app application="App1" name="App1-web"
> > root="/app1" shared="true" />
> > <web-app application="App2" name="App2-web"
> > root="/app2" shared="true" />
> >
> > Ok. If I do in sevlet1.java:
> >
> > disp=context.getRequestDispatcher("/app2/app2.jsp");
> > disp.forward(request,response);
> >
> > I get a: 404 Not Found...............
> >
> > If I use sendRedirect(..,..) the session is not
> > shared, it is empty.
> >
> > How can I connect the 2 applications? Did I miss andy
> > configuration setting? And how to send the session to
> > the other application. It seem setting shared=true
> > means something else than I thought.
> >
> > Greatfull for any hint.
> > Tomas
