Global Session Attributes

Hi,
i' m developing JSP channels. I know that i can create new attributes with value in the jsp session:
session.setAttribute(aname, aval);
But i want other channels to have access to this attributes.
Is there a global Session where all jsp provider have access ?
When not, which is the best way to do that ?
Thanks
Richard

Two methods called setUserSessionProperty
and getUserSessionProperty in the pluggable auth API enables authentication modules to get and set properties in the user session. This allows
authentication modules to communicate with channels, applications, or other authentication modules by setting session properties. For example, a custom
authentication module may add the user password to the session, so that an application may retrieve this property, for single sign on at a later time.
The default examples given are for servlets ..
Take a look at the sp3 release notes ..

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Here a simple bean that stores something in the session and retrieves something from it.
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    return value;
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Ok, here is the scenario:
1. We issue a company iPhone to each Field Sales Rep
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At first we had all entries in 1 xml file but our Sales Force soon grew larger than we could accomodate in one xml file (my testing found a lookup limit of 121 rows in the xmfl file).
I changed the script logic to first look at the area code and then do a lookup into one of 3 xml files based on the area code. For example, the first file contained all phones with area codes up to 350, the 2nd file for numbers with area codes from 351 to 700, the 3rd file for numbers with area codes from 701 to 999.
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I found the following thread discussing just such a situation:
https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2047722
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hello,
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wow, you've created one big mammy-jammy tool.
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import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.sql.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.io.*;
import com.cname.apl.*;
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private appUtil util ;
private java.sql.Connection conn ;
private static String dbUrl ;
private static String dbUid ;
private static String dbPwd ;
private static String mailFromAddressList ;
private static String mailToAddressList ;
private static String mailCcAddressList ;
private static String mailBccAddressList ;
private static String mailSubject ;
SimpleDateFormat SDF = new SimpleDateFormat("d-MMM-yyyy");
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super.init(config);
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dbPwd = config.getInitParameter("dbPwd");
mailFromAddressList = config.getInitParameter("mailFromAddressList");
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mailCcAddressList = config.getInitParameter("mailCcAddressList");
mailBccAddressList = config.getInitParameter("mailBccAddressList");
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dbUid = "*" ;
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mailFromAddressList = "" ;
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if (mailCcAddressList == null || mailCcAddressList.equals("*"))
mailCcAddressList = "" ;
if (mailBccAddressList == null || mailBccAddressList.equals("*"))
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String key = (String) request.getParameter("key");
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out.println("<title>Team Members</title>");
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out.println("return;");
out.println("}");
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out.println("}");
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out.println("alert('submit form')");
out.println("var mailAdd = document.frm.MailTo.value");
out.println("alert('mailAdd='+mailAdd);");
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out.println("document.all.frm.MailTo.focus();");
out.println("return false;");
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out.println("return true;");
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out.println("function UpdateMailTo() {");
out.println("alert ('I am in UpdateMailTo='+document.frm.MailTo.value);");
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out.println(util.getStyleSheet());
out.println("</head>");
out.println("<body bgcolor='silver'>");
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out.println("<b>Team Members</b>");
out.println("<tr>");
out.println("<TABLE cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0'>");
out.println("<tr>");
out.println("<td align='right'><b>Subject:  </b></td>");
out.println("<td>Deal Team Members Cleared by Conflicts</td>");
out.println("</tr><br>");
StringBuffer bod = new StringBuffer("");
SimpleDateFormat SDF = new SimpleDateFormat("d-MMM-yyyy");
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st.setInt(1, idEntry);
ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery();
int id = 0;
int dw = 0;
String cde_proj = "";
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String nm_long = "";
String empl = "";
String sid = "";
int userid = 0;
String email_pr = "";
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dw = rs.getInt("id_dealworks");
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nm_title = rs.getString("nm_title");
nm_long = rs.getString("nm_long");
empl = rs.getString("empl_name");
sid = rs.getString("id_standard");
email_pr = rs.getString("id_email_ext_unix");
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out.println("<td><input type='button' value='Save' onClick='UpdateMailTo()'></td>");
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out.println("</tr>");
if (rslt != null) rslt.close() ;
if (stmt != null) stmt.close() ;
}/*end try*/
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getServletContext().log(e.toString());
out.println("<td colspan='5' align='right'><input type='submit' value='Send email' onClick='submitForm()'></td>");
out.println("</tr>");
out.println("</table>");
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out.println("</body>");
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session.setAttribute("mailFromAddressList", mailFromAddressList);
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session.setAttribute("mailCcAddressList", mailCcAddressList);
session.setAttribute("mailBccAddressList", mailBccAddressList);
session.setAttribute("mailSubject", mailSubject);
session.setAttribute("mailBody", body);
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session.setAttribute("isAuthorized", new Boolean(false));
out.println("You are not authorized.");
//out.close();
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throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {
processRequest(request, response);
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From the documentation
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