IBM has published some "Best Practices" material that I consider excellent guidance. Although some of the material may be specific to WebSphere, the recommendations are likely relevant to most application servers. Here is the link to the specific best practice. Don't know if this will come across very well:
http://www7b.boulder.ibm.com/webapp/dd/transform.wss?URL=/wsdd/library/bestp ractices/store_objects_in_httpsession.xml&xslURL=/wsdd/xsl/bestpractice.xsl Here is another link to the "Best Practices Zone": http://www7b.boulder.ibm.com/wsdd/zones/bp/ Just hit the "Retrieve" button on the page and it will take you to a list of matching resources that will include "Best Practice: Storing Objects in HTTP Sessions". Most (but not all) of the best practices in the "zone" were published some time ago in a whitepaper that you can find here: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/ws_bestpractices.pdf And I think the following is more or less a "reprint" of the specific practice: http://www.advisor.com/Articles.nsf/aid/GUNTH01 Best regards, Jim Cakalic > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: amount of data stored in session > > > Are there published guidelines as to the number and size of > objects that are > stored in the session? I've seen references to the importance > of keeping > session data to a minimum, but no concrete recommendations. > >
