How do you show session contents in a jsp page?

Question

I am a newbie in programming and I was just wondering how you can retrieve a session and show it's contents in the jsp page? And i'm coding it in java. Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

session.getAttribute("attributeName")

Try look here: How to use session in jsp pages to get information?

And try to google it more next time. I typed "java jsp get session" and it gave me the link above.

Answer 2

JSP holds implicit objects, where you can get the values from session.

Some of the methods of that are

Methods of session object:

setAttribute(String, object)
getAttribute(String name)
getAttributeNames
isNew()
getCreationTime
getId
invalidate()
getLastAccessedTime
getMaxInactiveInterval
removeAttribute(String name)

reference link

Answer 3

jsp has implicit object called session you can directly use session object in scriplet or in expression in jsp as:

<%
String name = (String) session.setAttribute("attribute_name");
%>

Answer 4

Take a look here:

JSP Tutorial

You can take data from a session in this way:

String name = request.getParameter( "username" );

and also add easily:

session.setAttribute( "theName", name );