Jboss Seam introduced a very interesting concept to deal with sessions called "conversations": http://www.jboss.com/products/seam http://www.jboss.com/products/

Jboss Seam introduced a very interesting concept to deal with sessions called "conversations": http://www.jboss.com/products/seam http://www.jboss.com/products/seam Like sessions, conversation objects live across page requests, but die after a given action or event. A Conversation is a mid-ground between a session (long-lived) and a page request (short-lived). Seam also offers good support for dealing with the session scope: All you need to do is to basically say "hold this object in the session scope" and Seam manages it for you. No cookies or manual session handling (unless you want to)