Java Server Pages: A Code-Intensive Premium Reference- P12:Before you begin reading Pure JSP Java Server Pages, you might want to take a look at its basic structure. This should help you outline your reading plan if you choose not to read the text from cover to cover. This introduction gives you an overview of what each chapter covers. | center body html You can see that the only difference between these two JSPs is the values of the HTML title and h3 tags. To see how a session bean works copy both of these JSPs to the SERVER_ROOT purejsp directory and open your browser to the following URL http yourserver 8080 purejsp You should see an image similar to Figure . Go ahead and hit your reload button several times. You should see the count increase each time the page is reloaded. Now use the same browser instance to open the following URL http yoi. rserver 8080 purejsp You will see the count increment from the last count from the first JSP. This is because the Counter bean is stored in the session of the client. Now open a completely new instance of the browser and you will see the value of the count property is reset. This is because each instance of a client creates its own instance of the HttpSession which is where the Counter bean is stored. Figure The output from . application Beans with application scope are accessible within pages processing requests that are in the same application space as the page in which they were created. References to the object will be released when the runtime environment reclaims the ServletContext. More simply put this means that until the JSP engine is restarted the bean created with application scope will be available. Beans with application scope are best used when you need to share information between JSPs and servlets for the life of your application. To give an example of application scope we are going to use two JSPs. The first will load the Counter bean using an id of counter and a scope of application. It will then print out the current value of the Counter bean using the method. Listing contains the source for our first JSP. Listing @ page errorPage- -- Instantiate the Counter bean with an id of counter -- - 111 - jsp .
