Personally I've always used client vars because of the less than stellar track record of session vars and clustered servers. If this issue has gone away with CFMX, then I may look at session vars again (as they sure can make life easier) ;-)
Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com --------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean A Corfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 8:46 AM Subject: Re: Request for Review: "Variables in CFML > On Monday, Mar 24, 2003, at 02:57 US/Pacific, Matt Robertson wrote: > > Isn't it possible for CFMX to scale session vars across a cluster now? > > Yes, since you can use J2EE session variables and leverage the > scalability of the underlying J2EE system. > > > Did you hit on session management in a cluster? If it were me I'd go > > with client vars, but I guess using either client or session is now > > possible. > > Client variables are restricted to simple data types, session variables > can be anything (including CFCs). That alone may be sufficient reason > to prefer session variables to client variables. Also, with client > variables, you are restricted to cookies (increasing download / get / > post time), registry (very bad!) or a database (serialization overhead > and data access times). I can't see the appeal of client variables so > I'd be interested to hear from folks - like Matt - who use them and > prefer them to session variables. > > Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
