HTML toolkit applications typically run in a session environment. Each session (a channel session) is a memory area on the server side that can persist from one request to another. For an HTML client, which might not be able to store data on the client side, the concept of session is particularly useful. See Session management for details of sessions and how to use them. Only session information specific to the HTML Channel is included here.

The toolkit saves a reference to the session object that currently manages a session in the application session table. The session object is an HttpSession object actually. See Session management for more information.