JSP: Using the same Java object across pages

Question

I have 2 jsp pages, index.jsp and viewer.jsp. viewer.jsp is inside an IFRAME in index.jsp.

index.jsp needs to grab a list of domain names from a Java object foo and provide a drop down menu for the user. After the user picks one and submits it, viewer.jsp needs to read this domain name and use foo to extract all the the data it needs to display.

How do I access foo across both pages? Is there a better way to construct this functionality?

I haven't done JSP before (or web programming for that matter), so any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

Either put it in session scope, or replace the poor iframe approach by server side includes using jsp:include so that you can end up putting it in the request scope.