Make information about the current user available in a managed bean

Question

I've overridden prepareSession in an Application Module (AM) so that when a user logs into my application, it immediately uses the username as a bind variable to execute the query for a View Object (VO) that gets more information about the user, like full name, e-mail address ... This works fine and I'm able to bind the VO to a page and display the information.
But now I'm beginning to realize that I'm going to need this information about the user throughout the application. Do I have to include an iterator for the user info VO and associated attributeValues on every single pageDef, or is it possible to write a single managed bean that will expose the attributes of the single row of the VO as properties. The application I'm working on now is a "minor" upgrade of a JDeveloper 10.1.3 application, so I need a 10.1.3 solution, but I have a 11.1.2 application in the works that will probably do the same thing.
Oh, and sorry if this is an FAQ - I'm probably not using good search terms to find solutions that have already been posted.

Answer 1

Thank you Nick -
Your code didn't give me exactly the answer I needed, but it pointed me in the right direction. For one thing, I had a version of ADFUtils that didn't have the getApplicationModuleForDataControl method. However I was able to do a Google search and find working code for the missing method. And since the values I need to expose in the managed bean are from the VO, not the AM, I had to go one step further and get a reference to the VO from the AM, and then a reference to the first (and only) row of the VO.
For anyone else with this question, here's my version of the code:
public class UserInfo implements Serializable {
    private String eMail;
    private String stateCode;
    private String fullName;
    public UserInfo() {
        AppModuleImpl appModule =
            (AppModuleImpl)ADFUtils.getApplicationModuleForDataControl("AppModuleDataControl");
        ContactInfoViewImpl contactInfoVO =
            (ContactInfoViewImpl)appModule.getContactInfoView1();
        contactInfoVO.reset();
        ContactInfoViewRow contactInfo =
            (ContactInfoViewRow)contactInfoVO.first();
        stateCode = contactInfo.getConStCode();
        System.out.println("At construct UserInfo stateCode=" + stateCode);
        eMail = contactInfo.getConInternetAddr();
        System.out.println("At construct UserInfo eMail=" + eMail);
        fullName =
                contactInfo.getConFname() + " " + (contactInfo.getConMi() != null ?
                                                   contactInfo.getConMi() +
                                                   " " : "") +
                contactInfo.getConLname();
        System.out.println("At construct UserInfo fullName=" + fullName);
    public String getStateCode() {
        return stateCode;
    public String getEMail() {
        return eMail;
    public String getFullName() {
        return fullName;
}