Eric Fleming wrote: > > I am a Cold Fusion Developer learning JSP and have a question. In Cold > Fusion we have an application file and upon request of a cf page, the > application file is called first. this is how we store a lot of variables > associated with each page, is there a file that JSP pages go through first > or is there a way to store variables in JSP? I have been using session to > do this, but I have to check to see if the variable is defined on every page > and if it isn't, set it. Anybody know of an easier way to do this? Sorry > if this message is confusing.
In JSP 1.2 (Servlet 2.3), you can create a session life cycle event listener to handle this. It gets called when a new session starts (and ends), so you can initialize the session with all the data you need. <http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/10/10/jsp.html> Hans -- Hans Bergsten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gefion Software http://www.gefionsoftware.com Author of JavaServer Pages (O'Reilly), http://TheJSPBook.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
