Hello everyone,
I know whenever a user deals with your server (makes requests) a session is
established which can be manipulated and tracked (using various methods).
Is it possible for a servlet to establish a session between two seperate
distinct users? So that they can pass information between them? How could
this be achieved?

Thanks very much.

My currnet line of thinking is to create a Hashtable which associates users
with their sessionID.
So then if one user wants to send information to another user, the
recipient is looked up in the hashtable, his sessionID obtained and then a
response is sent.

My other thoughts was to setAttribute(user, session) thereby associating
the user with his session. however, in the servlet tutorials it states:
"Such attributes are accessible by any web component that belongs to the
same web context and is handling a request that is part of the same session."

A second, distinct user would not be part of the same session, right? And
what is the web context, exactly?


Thank you for your time,
Alex Pop

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