pageContext.getSession() Bug in 0.7.9

[Sharath_Komarla]

HI,

in 0.7.9 a call to pageContext.getSession() returns null if I have not done a
jsp:useBean with scope="session"

Yet the implicit session variable is not null in the jsp page.  This is a
serious bug to me since I am writing custom
tags and our applications will not use jsp:useBean.

I was told by a colleague that this was an acknowledged bug and it would be
fixed.  Would this be fixed in 0.8.0
by any chance?

Thanks
Sharath