Sharing session attributes between two servlets

[Rhea Karnam]

Hi,
I understand that on saying response.sendRedirect(), a new request would be created (effectively, the previously existing request would be lost). But, will the existing session be still available thru request.getSession(false)?
The problem I am facing is:
1. I have two servlets running in my system, one for each application.
2. I want the values stored in the session to be shared between the two servlets (like When servlet1 redirects a particular request to servlet2).
3. Apart from composing a url with all the details needed by servlet2, I need certain other data to be taken from the session.
Is it possible?

[Ivan Tamayo]

In general, if you want to call a servlet from another, use a RequestDispatcher.

[David Hibbs]

Session attributes are only shared by servlets within the same web application (i.e. war). Beyond that, they are not shared. Further, you of course cannot forward to a servlet in another app--you must redirect.

[Rhea Karnam]

hi, thanks for the info. Following this, if I return back to servlet 1 from servlet 2, will the values that I had stored in the session (before redirecting to servlet2) still be intact?
The scenrio is like this:
1. I store some values in the session , before redirecting to servlet2 from servlet1.
2. when servlet2 redirects back to servlet1, i want servlet1 to pick up the previously stored values and continue.
As it might be obvious, I am a beginner in this and not sure of my approach.
Rhea

[Andy Bowes]

The values in the session will remain until one of the following happens:
1. They are explicity removed using session.removeAttribute().
2. The sessions expires due to client inactivity.
A session basically represents a conversation between a client (i.e the browser) and the server. Providing the user doesn't leave his desk for a long lunch break or sit looking at the same page for too long then the session will be retained on the server.
HTH
[ June 04, 2003: Message edited by: Andy Bowes ]