Personally I use the Application scope for session data and roll my own timeout simply to gain the ability for "end of session event" processing.
Even properly locked (and using CF 4.5) it's plenty fast enough if done right. Jim Davis > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean A Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 11:47 AM > To: CF-Talk > 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 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
