Understanding Session State Management

HTTP, the protocol over which HTML pages are most often delivered, is a stateless protocol. A Web browser is only connected to the server for as long as it takes to download a complete page. In addition, each page request is treated by the server as an independent event, unrelated to any page requests that happened previously or may occur in the future. This means that to access form values entered on one page on a subsequent page, some form of session state management needs to occur. Typically, when a user enters values into a form on one page, those values are not accessible on later pages. Oracle Application Express transparently maintains session state and provides developers with the ability to get and set session state values from any page in the application.

Topics:

• What Is a Session?

• Understanding Session IDs

• Referencing Session State