ovidiu 02/04/26 00:01:08 Modified: src/scratchpad/schecoon/webapp/docs index.xml Log: Updated. Revision Changes Path 1.4 +9 -7 xml-cocoon2/src/scratchpad/schecoon/webapp/docs/index.xml Index: index.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/xml-cocoon2/src/scratchpad/schecoon/webapp/docs/index.xml,v retrieving revision 1.3 retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -r1.3 -r1.4 --- index.xml 5 Apr 2002 20:33:50 -0000 1.3 +++ index.xml 26 Apr 2002 07:01:08 -0000 1.4 @@ -17,13 +17,15 @@ application.</p> <p>Traditional Web applications try to model the control flow of - a Web application by imagining the application as a finite state - machine (FSM). For a client, the application can be only in one - state at a time. Any request the client sends to the application - makes it transition in a different state. As a side-effect of - this transition, the application may update internal data, - either in memory or in the database. The response to this - transition is a Web page that's sent back to the client.</p> + a Web application by modeling the application as a finite state + machine (FSM). In this model, the Web application is composed of + multiple states, but the application can be only in one state at + a time. Any request received by the application transitions it + in a different state. During such a transition, the application + may perform various side-effects, such as updating objects + either in memory or in a database. Another important side-effect + of such a transition is that a Web page is sent back to the + client browser.</p> <p>For simple Web applications, this model works fine. However, as the application grows, the number of states and transitions
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