"Kirkdorffer, Daniel" wrote:
> >> Finally, Yes "application" refers to the specific JSP that is being
> called NOT
> >> The Application...
>
> Right, so it is just like a "global" variable that exists for the lifetime
> of the pagecompiled JSP (which is a servlet). Application is a poor choice
> of words here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
Gabriel Wong's statement above (the one with >> in front) is not correct for
the 0.92 reference implementation. This implementation stores and accesses
beans with a lifespan of "application" in the servlet context
(context.getAttribute() and context.setAttribute()), so they are shared across
all the servlets (and JSP pages) in that context -- not just the particular
servlet or JSP page you reference them from.
This corresponds to the direction the servlet API is headed (a servlet context
being treated essentially as an application), so the choice of "application" as
the term makes a lot more sense when you understand what it is really doing.
Previous comments from Sun engineers on this topic imply that this behavior (as
well as the corresponding behavior for session and page lifespans) will be
formalized in the 1.0 JSP spec.
Craig McClanahan
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