Spring MVC: HTTP session management “equivalent”

Question

I come from languages like PHP or ColdFusion: if I wanted to save something in user\'s http session I act like this:

SESSION[\"foo\"] = \"bar\"

Answer 1

You may use a session-scoped bean, and you may also have an argument of type HttpServletRequest or HttpSession on all your request handling methods. See http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/spring-framework-reference/htmlsingle/spring-framework-reference.html#mvc-ann-methods.

@RequestMapping...)
public String processSubmit(..., HttpSession session, ...) {
    ...
    session.setAttribute("someAttribute", someObject);
    ...
}