How to do Session Management in JSP and Servlets using its methods and API ?.

A simple web application showing how to manage sessions through its methods in JSP and Servlets using Session Management API

1. style.css (not mandatory) just for look and feel

body {
 font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
 background-color: #FDF4DF;
 font-size: 14px;
 color: #FFFFFF;
}

td {
 font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
 font-size: 14px;
}

th {
 font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
 font-size: 14px;
}

.black {
 color: #000000;
 font-weight: bold;
}

2. register.jsp

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<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
 pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Registration</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>

 <form method="post" action="SessionManagement">
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p align="center" class="black">Create a new Account :</p>
  <table align="center" bgcolor="#728DCF">
   <tr>
    <td>First Name</td>
    <td><input type="text" name=firstName size=30 class="smalltext"></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td>Last Name</td>
    <td><input type="text" name=lastName size=30 class="smalltext"></td>
   </tr>

   <tr>
    <td>Email Address</td>
    <td><input type="text" name=email size=40 class="smalltext"></td>
   </tr>

   <tr>
    <td>Password</td>
    <td><input type="password" name=password size=30
     class="smalltext"></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit"
     value="Register" /></td>
   </tr>
  </table>
 </form>

</body>
</html>

3. SessionManagement.java (Servlet)

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Date;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;

/**
 * Servlet implementation class SessionManagement
 */
@WebServlet("/SessionManagement")
public class SessionManagement extends HttpServlet {

 @Override
 protected void doGet(
   HttpServletRequest request, 
   HttpServletResponse response
   ) throws ServletException, IOException {
  doPost(request, response);
 }

 @Override
 protected void doPost(
   HttpServletRequest request, 
   HttpServletResponse response
   ) throws ServletException, IOException {

  response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");

  // Getting the first name of user from the request 

  String firstName = request.getParameter("firstName");

  // Creating PrintWriter from response for displaying
  // contents on the browser

  PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();

  // Creating a HttpSession Object for the request

  HttpSession newSession = request.getSession(true);

  // Setting the maximum inactive interval to be 1 min
  // after 1 min a new session will be created 
  newSession.setMaxInactiveInterval(60);

  String welcome;

  Integer counter = 0;

  try {

   // Checking whether session is new or not  

   if (newSession.isNew()) {

    // If user has visited this page for 1st time below msg is displayed
    welcome = "Hi "+ firstName +" !!!. It's first time you are visiting this website.";

   }

   else {
    // If user has already visited this page in session interval
    // than this msg is been displayed 
    welcome = "Hi "+ firstName +" !!!. Welcome back";

    // getting the value of counter from session for first
    // time it will be null 
    Integer count = (Integer)newSession.getAttribute("counter");

    if (count != null) {
     // incrementing the value of counter by one if its not null
     // that is user has visited the page for second time 
     counter = new Integer(count.intValue() + 1);

    }
   }
   // setting the value of counter into session after 1st visit as soon
   //  as soon as visitor comes back till session expiration this value will be displayed
   // with the help of session management ... After session expiration this value will be 
   // gone and reset to null
   newSession.setAttribute ("counter", counter);

   out.println("<html><head><title>Session Management</title></head><body bgcolor='#FDF4DF'>");

   out.println("<h3>" + welcome + "</h3><br>");
 
   // printing the session id coming in the request for the first time 
   out.println("<b>Session Id : </b>" + newSession.getId() + "<br>");
   
   // prints the creation time of servlet as a date 
   out.println("<b>Creation Time of the Session : </b>" + 
     new Date(newSession.getCreationTime()) + "<br>");
   
   // prints the last access of the page by the same user
   out.println("<b>Last access time : </b>" + 
     new Date(newSession.getLastAccessedTime()) + "<br><br>");
   
   // it displays the maximum inactive interval time
   out.println("<b>Maximum inactive interval time was : </b>" + 
     newSession.getMaxInactiveInterval() + "<br>");


   // printing the counter value
   out.println("You have visited this page " + (++counter));

   if(counter == 1) {

    out.println(" time ");

   }
   else {

    out.println(" times ");

   }

   out.println("</body></html>");

  } 
  finally {

   out.close();

  }
 }
}

Output of the program :

1. register.jsp screen view