On Monday, Jan 13, 2003, at 22:27 US/Pacific, Matt Robertson wrote: > Client vars are, for my money, the Holy Grail with respect to > completely > replacing session vars. Scaleable to clusters, zero locking issues, > maintain state, and expiration can be controlled precisely like session > vars with about 2 lines of code in application.cfm. Store 'em in a db, > tho'. Leave the Registry alone at all costs.
Note that with CFMX for J2EE you can use J2EE session variables and take advantage of clustering, session fail over etc without the overhead of hitting the database and without the limits of cookies (to say nothing of the problems of trying to use the registry). Sean A Corfield -- Director, Architecture Web Technology Group -- Macromedia, Inc. tel: (415) 252-2287 -- cell: (415) 717-8473 aim/iChat: seancorfield -- http://www.macromedia.com An Architect's View -- http://www.macromedia.com/go/arch_blog ColdFusion MX and JRun 4 now available for Mac OS X! http://www.macromedia.com/go/cfmxosx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4