I've been out of the office for 4 days so I'm just now responding. Thanks to all who offered valuable feedback and input.
I am a huge fan of OO programing. I graduated college in December 2002 from Miami U. of Ohio. The program I studied there really focused on OO design and use. So I've been somewhat "brainwashed", but I really believe in it despite this. So when I took on the current project my employer wanted the site cleaned up. It was a mess prior to the redesign. I chose to use components rather then using cookies or individual session variables because I love the structure and organization that a nice, neat "wrapped up" component provides....and I love reusing code instead of having copies of it everywhere. Everything is much more consistent and logical. Instantiating them in session was a natural choice since, in theory, the data should be maintained for the user's session across all pages. The main user component only contains DATA relevant to the user and methods that deal with this data. I honestly don't see a huge problem with this because it's not a huge amount of code. RAM is not really a concern to us, the machine is adequately equipped. So now we're having issues with the site timing out users prematurely and randomly. We have verified that what is causing this is that the user is getting a NEW jsessionid from the server. What we don't know is WHY this is happening. Responses from another post I made where that there are a number of causes, many which are unrelated to actual code. What I really need to determine is if the lack of <cflock> in appropriate places is the culprit. I see that there are pros/cons to using cfcs in session, as have been noted in most of the responses here, but I need to pin down what is causing it. If anyone has any helpful advice please send it my way. If you want to scorn me for using CFCs in session scope, please keep your comments to yourself unless you truely feel it is relevant to my problem. Thanks in advance! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:275131 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
