RE: [WEB400] What happened to rpgenerationx.com?

["Joel R. Cochran" <jrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Remember, "storage" is a LOCAL variable, not an INSTANCE
> variable.  These
> are two totally different concepts.  Have I cleared it up at all?
>
> Joe

Absolutely and thank you for the response, I was driving myself crazy!  Like
I said, I was afraid I was making it too complicated and sure enough I was
right.  I thought I was perhaps misunderstanding the term "instance
variables" which is what threw me for such a loop.  I get it now... they are
the non-static variables outside any methods in the Class.

I only had one which was getting populated by request.getParameter(), so I
simply replaced it with that method call in the couple of places using it so
it should be OK now.  Basically I was doing it pretty much correctly
already, but I read your message and talked myself into thinking I had to
change everything... great way to start the day! :-)

I do have one remaining question... why have a Storage object at all?  Right
now I am storing all my needed objects in the session.  Doesn't using a
Storage object simply add an unnecessary layer?

Also thanks for the lesson about "synchronized( session )".  I got it from
Marty Hall's book and have simply used it ever since.


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