Warren Young wrote:
If the current behavior is useful for others, then it might be nice to have a new event that has the behavior I expected. No rush, this is mostly a syntax issue. (Reasoning below.) The top priority is simply to document the actual behavior of Application_OnStart. The current docs are misleading.
I see App*OnStart as very useful, if it is understood by the developer of the application. If for any reason you share application state between mulitple front ends, then you only want certain things to happen exactly once. Each reboot or web server restart is not necessarily an application restart :)
This is a good point, and was the basis for the original implementation, that the application starts when the first visitor registers a session. This was the definition of the original Application_OnStart event in the ASP model.
Since there are others that find it useful as is ( thanks for speaking up Peter ), it seems that we really need to create something else to fill this gap.
If I understand things correctly, the real need is to calculate something once per application, so the best would be to create the event
Global_OnStart or Global_OnCompile ( Global_OnStart seems consistent )
which would be executed when the global.asa is compiled for the first time. If one wanted this to occur just once per server start, then running Loader() to get it compiled there would be the trick, otherwise it would be executed just once per httpd process.
It may be that necessarily Global_OnStart would have to occur before $Application or $Session is set up ( effectively before Application_OnStart or Session_OnStart ) effectively. Would this event still be useful if this is the case? Really, the event would just be used to do things like calculate globals and the like, so it seems like this would be good enough.
Any thoughts?
Regards,
Josh
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