how to create session object

[sa sam]

i want to store bean object in session for that i am using

FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getSessionMap().put("customer",o_beanCustomer);

but when i retrieve o_beanCustomer value from session using

o_beanCustomer = (Bean_customer) FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequestMap().get("customer");

i am getting null value,

so, please tell me how to sore the session value and what's wrong in my code.

[Davie Lin]

You should of use session map instead of request map

[Tim Holloway]

Better yet, you should seriously consider finding a way to do this using POJO techniques without all the convoluted JSF stuff.

The only time I ever do anything like this is when I need a true top-level session object and it can't be a managed bean.

And then I offload the actual manual session object get/put to a utility class so that my core core isn't littered with a lot of explicit javax.faces constructs. That way my code is easier to unit-test offline and I won't get clobbered the next time a new set of framework functions comes out.