"Westland, Jonathan" wrote:
> Question #2: Must the object be serializable? I have seen a couple of
> threads on that topic with no definitive answer.
>
Objects stored in sessions do *not* have to be Serializable. However, if they
are not, you lose out on the extended capability of some servlet engines to
persist and restore your session data -- for either load balancing purposes, or
for surviving a server restart.
Craig McClanahan
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