HOW DO I MAKE A CART A SESSION???HELP!!

Try using a Bean instead of a session.setattribute.

<jsp:useBean id="myCart" class="java.util.Vector" scope="session" />

As long as you refer to it by the same name and same scope you will have access to it in every page you need it.

You can then just walk through the items in the Vector

I agree with Binary1 if you use it in jsp.

in servlet or beans, use:

Set:
Vector myCart = new Vector();
......
session.setAttribute( "myCart", myCart );

Get:
Vector myCart = (Vector) session.getAttribute( "myCart" );

public class CarttestBean implements Serializable
{    
     private Vector cart = new Vector();
     
     private String bnDbDriver = "mysql.Driver";
     private String bnDbId = "jdbc:mysql://";
     private String bnDbUser = "user";
     private String bnDbPassword = "pw";
     private String bnStockDescription = "";
     private String bnStockSize = "";
     private String bnStockColor = "";
     private String bnStockCode = "";
     private String bnStockPrice;
     private String bnRemoveCode = "";
     private String bnStockQuantity ="";
     private String bnCustomerAddress ="";

then....getter and setter methods etc


In my Item class, i have only set and get methods for these declared vars.

class Item {
     private String bnStockDescription = "";
     private String bnStockSize = "";
     private String bnStockColor = "";
     private String bnStockCode = "";
     private String bnStockPrice = "TEST TEST";
     private String bnStockQuantity = "";


in my jsp page i have

<jsp:useBean
     id="myCarttestBean"
     scope="session"
     class="projbeans.CarttestBean"
     />

You should have access to your Bean from every page that you include that jsp:useBean. I assume that your CarttestBean class has a way to add an item to your field 'cart'.

Do you have a method to retrieve either a clone of 'cart' or a way to call to get an item back? If that is what you are asking you can do this in several ways:

1: keep an internal counter that tracks which item to return next

   have a nextItem() method that would return the next item from the 'cart' and increment the internal counter

   have a reset method that would reset the internal counter back to the start of the cart


2: Have a getCartSize() method that would return the number of items in the 'cart'

   Have a getItem(int) method that would return the item at that index in the 'cart'


3: Have a method getCart() that would return a clone of the 'cart'. You probably don't want to return the 'cart' itself because then you open up the cart to be modified by something other than the Bean.

No, i do not have a method to ret a clone of the cart.  Whats the easiet way to do this.  It is odd that you find so many other things on these sites except real help with things like creating carts using jsp etc.

You can use the clone() method of your cart vector. In your Class CarttestBean include a get function that returns the clone:

public Vector getCart() {
    return cart.clone();
}

I give up but thanx for your time.

Are you looking for example code? If you've implemented what is described in your posts you can print out the cart like this:

// Get a local "copy" of the cart. The getCart() method should return
// a clone copy of the actual cart. It can return the cart itself
// but keep in mind that you leave yourself open to modifications
// being made to it that you where not aware of.
Vector cartItems = myCarttestBean.getCart();

// The size() method of Vector will let you know how many
// items you've placed in the cart
if ( cartItems.size() == 0 ) {
      out.println("You have no items in your cart");
} else {
      for ( int i = 0; i < cartItems.size(); i++ ) {
            // Get the current indexed item out of the
            // cart and display it
            item inCart = (item) cartItems.elementAt(i);

            // inCart now contains an instance of one of the
            // cart items - Print out the item how you want
           out.println("Description: " + inCart.getBnStockDescription());
           out.println("Size: " + inCart.getBnStockSize());
           out.println("Color: " + inCart.getBnStockColor());
           out.println("Product Code: " + inCart.getBnStockCode());
           out.println("Price: " + inCart.getBnStockPrice());
           out.println("Quantity: " + inCart.getBnStockQuantity());
           out.println("Total: " + (inCart.getBnStockPrice() * inCart.getBnStockQuantity()));
      }
}

Thank you for your time but I am going to leave that one for the time being.  Its still not doing what I want it to.  Maybe you could help with this...how do you input today's date into a sql database table.  Note sql and not oracle.  Say a customer orders an item today...how do you handle this, like set it in the bean etc.

B1 you have been so very helpful.  Thank you for taking the time.  I am exploring my options at the moment.  i am just stuck but thanx anyway.  I am not a prof like you guys are you see.