Theoretically, a stateful session bean would be unique to a particular client. If a user hits your site, a HTTPSession will get created, your web-tier code might lookup/create a session bean (it could store the handle to the bean in the HTTP Session for use on subsequent calls). Once you get inside of your EJB tier, the session bean would be unique to the user.
This of course has some scalability issues, since each user has a session bean associated with them. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Michael Remijan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: howto uniquely identify a client in a bean? Hi, I also have what seems to be a very simple question but have been pouring over the J2EE API for a few days and can't find a solution. Once Inside a bean I can use the SessionContext and EntityContext objects as a link to the container and the (some) user information. What I want to get is the unique identification that the application server has assigned to that user, especially in the case of stateful session beans. the "getCallerPrinciple()" method isn't helpful because then each client must have a seperate login and that's just not possible. Bottomline, I want the equivalent of the session id you can get from the an HttpServletRequest, or something equivalent. Any idea? Thanks in advance, Mike __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
