Craig - Thank you for keeping me honest. After further thoughts on this subject I
agree you are absolutely correct.
Gabriel Wong
http://www.ezwebtools.com
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"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> "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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