Thanks for the reply and mentioning Ehcache. As I understand it, I load my global data into the ehcache's CacheManager Singleton and can access it that way. But how can I init the cache on webapp startup rather than when the first user connects to it? Is there a global init method I can use?
And as for the temporary data, I thought continuations are used to provide the user with the possibility to go back one page and have the exact content of the last page, although it gets dynamically created. In my case, I want to make sure, the user can't go back one page. If he tries to go back one page, he should be redirected to the current page. Just to make it clear: I can store data in a servlet session, where the temporal data would only be stored on the server-side while the user only has identification data stored on his side and an expiration/timeout can be set? Is that directly supported by rife or is the use discouraged? Sorry for the newbie questions, but I tried to figure it out for myself as much as I can and I am still a bit confused... best regards, Artur Geert Bevin wrote: > On 15 Nov 2007, at 08:55, Artur Kraft wrote: > > >> Hi Rifers, >> >> I got a conceptual question about the handling of global data. I >> want to >> implement a browser game with rife and therefore each player has >> individual data and needs access to global data. >> I thought on startup the webapp retrieves all global data from the >> database and stores it in a way it can be fast accessed. Maybe one >> singleton with access to various hashmaps behind it. That way it would >> be present in memory and no db action had to be made for the global >> data. >> >> But I am not so sure about it now. It seems like every user/webapp >> action which involves data has to access the db. What about temporary >> data like if you have a sequence of actions. Do you have to save all >> the >> temporary data also to the db? E.g. you have a webapp where you are >> able >> to complete courses and each course consist of ten questions, but you >> only show one question at a time. Do have to store every answer in the >> db until all ten answers were given, although only the fact if the >> course was passed or not is relevant? >> > > RIFE applications typically use continuations for temporary data. > Other possibilities to do this is to use a caching, like Ehcache, or > to store data in a servlet session. > > Hope this helps, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Bevin > Terracotta - http://www.terracotta.org > Uwyn "Use what you need" - http://uwyn.com > RIFE Java application framework - http://rifers.org > Music and words - http://gbevin.com > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rife-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rife-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
