What means session persistence when the optionnal cookie is disabled in JRun ??? Here is a sample of code which start the service method of my application's dispatching servlet HttpSession session = _req.getSession (false); if (session == null) { System.out.println ("invalid session"); session = _req.getSession (true); aoB = new aoBean (); aoB.setProp ("test"); session.putValue ("aoB", aoB); } Then the forwarding jsp page can access the bean, and the property prop is well set. On the next page, the "invalid session" message is written, and a new bean is created, successfully accessed by the nextcoming jsp. If I enable the session cookie, everything work the way I want - which is keeping the session. Am I doing anything wrong, or is it just the persistence engine that cannot work without the cookie ? In this case, what is the enable cookie checkbox made for ? How do other java servers implement session and is it possible to make it work without cookie ? If anyone has developped a session bean that works this way, I'd be glad to have some clues also. Thanks Sylvain Computers are like air conditioners - they stop working properly when you open Windows UNIX _IS_ user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are. ______________________________________________ Sylvain Roche Responsable développement Add-Online www.add-online.fr 70bis rue Bossuet 69006 LYON France tel : +33 472838583 fax: +33 472838584 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". FAQs on JSP can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html