What is PortletSession interface?

What is PortletSession interface?

- User identification across many requests and transient information storage about the user is processed by PortletSession interace. One PortletSession is created per portlet application per client.

- The PortletSession interface provides a way to identify a user across more than one request and to store transient information about that user.

- The storing of information is defined in two scopes:
1. APPLICATION_SCOPE
2. PORTLET_SCOPE.

1. APPLICATION_SCOPE:
- All the objects in the session are available to all portlets,servlets, JSPs of the same portlet application, by using APPLICATION_SCOPE.

2. PORTLET_SCOPE:
- All the objects in the session are available to the portlet during the requests for the same portlet window.
- The attributes persisted in the PORTLET_SCOPE are not protected from other web components.
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