[Chiba-users] Sharing Session

[Adam R. <ada...@de...>]

Hi chaps,

I think this must be a problem that many people have run up against but
I cant seem to find much information on solving it.

Basically Chiba, is a Servlet and so runs in its own context in the
Servlet Engine (Tomcat or Jetty here) and so maintains its own session
information.

We have an existing webapplication which runs as a Servlet in the same
Servlet engine as Chiba. However as it is a seperate servlet it has its
own context and so its own sessions.

Now I would like to replace the messy HTML forms in our Servlet web
application with Chiba + XForms. The process is that a user comes to our
web application and log's in (a session is created and their details
stored in the session), I then need to give them an XForm to complete,
no problem, just redirect them to the Chiba XForm URL. BUT the problem
is when they have completed the XForm and Chiba posts the XML document
back to our webapplication, is is posted onto a new session with our web
application and not the users existing session.

So I need a mechanism to share the session between our Servlet and the
Chiba Servlet or to be able to somehow pass the JSESSIONID into Chiba
when I call the XForm and have Chiba submit the form result onto that
session.

How can I acheive this please?


Thanks Adam


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