One Session Form Backing Object, Many Forms?

[leeand00]

Good Morning,

I have a question concerning session forms,

I wish to use a POJO that is stored in my session across multiple forms in my application (one form backing object, multiple forms).

I can't seem to control what the name of session attribute used to store the form backing object in the session is.

It isn't for a wizard, the form backing object is just a list of settings I want the user to carry with them across the application.

    <bean id="mainPageController" class="com.concilerpress.webapp.action.MCPMainPageController">
		<property name="commandClass" value="com.concilerpress.webapp.action.commandobject.AppState"/>
		<property name="commandName" value="appState"/>
		<property name="successView" value="redirect:/main_page.html" /> 
		<property name="cancelView" value="forward:/" /> 
		<property name="formView" value="index"/> 

		<!-- Specified as a sessionForm -->
		<property name="sessionForm" value="true" />
    </bean>

Now when the form-backing object gets stored in the session I get a log message that reads:

	Setting form session attribute [com.concilerpress.webapp.action.MainPageController.FORM.appState] to: com.concilerpress.action.commandobject.AppState@4c03d

Therefore, it would seem to me that this means my form-backing object is stored in the session attribute: com.concilerpress.webapp.action.MainPageController .FORM.appState

I can't seem to find a setter for setting the name of the session attribute which stores the form; Now given this fact, how can I retrieve the same form backing object from the session in a different part of the application?

Thank you,
Andrew J. Leer

[manifoldronin]

IIUC, sessionForm is only intended to carry over data through a complete form display/submission cycle without having to reload data from the business layer for each request during the cycle.

For what you are trying to achieve, session scope beans might be better.