My experience has always been bad, they are pretty clunky. Even worse if you store them in a DB, I would avoid them if you had the choice.
As for no sticky sessions, that only leaves you session replication with ColdFusion under J2EE. "This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -----Original Message----- From: Mike Kear To: CF-Talk Sent: Tue Feb 06 06:50:37 2007 Subject: Client variables? reliable enough? I sat in a client briefing yesterday, and he said something that made me sit up and take notice, could he be right? I havent used Client variables since CF5, so I dont know if they are good now or not, but i didnt have a problem back in the CF5 days but here's what my client said (he has a lot of experience with CF going back to CF1, but he hasnt done much CF coding since CF5.1) He said, "dont use client variables, because they seem ok but in practice they always cause problems. I want you to write your own state maintenance stuff. I don't want you to use sticky sessions either because if a server goes down the other machine doesnt know the state." The environment is going to be two or three servers running CF7 enterprise, not sure if we're going Linux or Windows yet. What do you make of what the client said? Does it have any merit in current versions? Can anyone attest to reliability (or otherwise) of client vars in CF7? (I should also add there is no chance we're going to use the registry to store client vars - it's going to be in the database if we use them) -- Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:268778 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
