request.getSession().getAttribute() and session.getAttribute()

Hi All,

Sorry guys, I'm a novice in web programming and this may sound like a stupid question to you guys... Here it goes...

Is there any difference between request.getSession().getAttribute() and session.getAttribute()?

I have tried doing the following in PAGE1:-

session.setAttribute("TEXT","novice");

objRequestDispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher(PAGE2);

objRequestDispatcher.forward(request, response);

When in PAGE2, I'm able to get contents of "TEXT" by doing:-

request.getSession().getAttribute("TEXT");

1) so doessession andrequest.getSession() refers to the same object?

Can i do asession.getAttribute("TEXT") to get the contents too?

2) And if I have a PAGE3, am I able to retrieve contents of "TEXT" which is set in

PAGE1?

3) And also will I be able to get the contents of "TEXT" if I'm doing a

window.open() to go from PAGE1 to PAGE2?

I have tried to find out the answers by "try and error" but the more I tried the more confused I get...

Hope that someone can give me some advice.

Thanks in Advance.

[1219 byte] By [redders83a] at [2007-10-1 0:41:11]