Does anyone have an easy to understand tutorial on session tracking in servlets. All the materials i've come across have been quite difficult to understand.

what are your competence skills

I dont think I understand what you mean by competence skills, but as far as the question is concerned, I can basically write a servlet to read form data from a single webpage. What i'm trying to do is write a single servlet to read form data from multiple web pages one after the other.

HttpSession session = request.getSession();
session.setAttribute("name","kencas";

dats all

Make sure you are passing control to the next page by forwarding the request via requestDispatcher. So, your servlet will act as a controller. The first form/page submits to it, you create the session object, store appropriate attributes, then forward the request to the next page/view.

Google for "Core servlets and JSP" by Marty Hall. Read the chapter on session management and it should help.

Thanks Guys,

Bossman, I think i'm going to go with your flow. What I actually want to do is use hidden form fields to track session as opposed to using the httpsession API

Gee, see what I found with google.

http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Servlet-Tutorial/Servlet-Tutorial-Session-Tracking.html
http://www.novocode.com/doc/servlet-essentials/chapter2c.html

If you don't get the tutorials, you have no business with programming.

logica:

Gee, see what I found with google.

http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Servlet-Tutorial/Servlet-Tutorial-Session-Tracking.html
http://www.novocode.com/doc/servlet-essentials/chapter2c.html

If you don't get the tutorials, you have no business with programming.

Thanks for the link, but I dont think your last comment was necessary. I'm here to learn and just because i'm struggling with a new concept doesn't make me a numb skull or bad programmer.