Ninad Shringarpure's List: Servlet Sessions

• Defines a set of methods that a servlet uses to communicate with its  servlet container, for example, to get the MIME type of a file, dispatch  requests, or write to a log file.  
• There is one context per "web application" per Java Virtual Machine
•     ServletContext getContext(java.lang.String uri
• This method allows servlets to gain  access to the context for various parts of the server, and as  needed obtain RequestDispatcher objects from the context.  The given path must be begin with "/", is interpreted relative   to the server's document root and is matched against the context roots of  other web applications hosted on this container.

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• The context in which Web components execute is an object that implements the ServletContext interface. You retrieve the Web context with the getServletContext method. The Web context provides methods for accessing:

  • Mark the diff in SessionContext in Session Beans and ServletContext in Servlets
• • Initialization parameters
   
  • Resources associated with the Web context
   
  • Object-valued attributes
   
  • Logging capabilities