Details on Session Management

In Working with Page Navigation, there is a brief description on how Application Designer manages sessions. This part provides more details about session management.

In principle, the session management is hidden inside Application Designer. If you write normal applications running in the Application Designer workplace environment, you do not have to care about session management at all: you do not have to somehow collect data from a session object in order to work with it or do something similar.

However, reading this part is interesting for you if you want to know the following:

  • What is the life cycle of an adapter?

  • What amount of data is kept in an adapter?

  • How does Application Designer internally arrange adapters?

This part is especially important for you if you:

  • write a workplace-like application which serves as a frame for content applications;

  • not only have Application Designer pages in your web application but also other servlets or JSP pages.

The information provided in this part is organized under the following headings:

HTTP Sessions - Application Designer Sessions
Application Designer Session - Application Designer Subsessions
Application Designer Subsession - Application Designer Adapter Objects
How Things Start
How Things End
Workplace Management
Saving Context Data
Session IDs