Session does not persist

[John Miller]

I have a servlet that calls other classes and passes the request and response objects to them in a hashtable. Everyting works fine but when i call my login class from my command processor servlet the login class stored the users access level in the session with the following code:
HttpSession session = req.getSession(true);
session.setAttribute("access", accessLevel);
Later on one of my other servlet i try and access the accesslevel but it only returns null. what can it be?
the code in the class that want to access the session is as follows: HttpSession session = req.getSession(false);
String access = (String) session.getAttribute("access");

[Frank Carver]

How are you getting the session in your servlet? Beware that you can get a session in two ways, one which always creates a new session, and one which will get an existing one if it is present.
Do other values go inand out of the session OK?

[John Miller]

Originally posted by Frank Carver:
How are you getting the session in your servlet? Beware that you can get a session in two ways, one which always creates a new session, and one which will get an existing one if it is present.
Do other values go inand out of the session OK?

Yes the values go into the session, but when I access them in the other class they return null. I do use getSession(true) and getSession(false) in the right palces to prevent creating a new servlet each time.