Database connection using beans

Question

Hi, I'm very new to JSP. I'm trying to write an application which has a Login page which the user uses to login to a Oracle database (with their own User ID and password). Once the user has successfully logged in I would like to use the same connection to all the other pages the user is traversing until the user logs out. I have come to know that this is possible using beans in JSP or using the connection pool, but I'm not 100% sure how. Can someone please provide me some sample code of the Login page, the beans and a third page which uses the connection. I really appreciate your time and efforts. Thanks a lot in advance for all your efforts and support.
Cheers
Balaji

Answer 1

What you have to learn is how to use session variables after you have successfully logged in your pages. What the next succeeding pages will do is to check if this session variable is not null or valid and then proceed with the display of the pages or redirect it to the login page otherwise. You can implement this sesion variable as a bean to store all the details for a particular user.
Typically you will use
Object o = session.getAttribute("yourSessionVariable");
if (o ==null)
// go to login page OR
// create a session variable
// like session.setAttribute("yourSessionVariable", new Object());
}else
//proceed with the display
Here, o is your bean.
Hope this helps