Thanks Adam, Makes sense, Appreciate it, Brian
-----Original Message----- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 August 2003 22:07 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB I think the issue of using up server memory with lots of shopping carts in the session is worth thinking about. It's just a question of maths - how much memory have you got, what is the peak number of users envisaged, how much stuff are you going to store in the session? even then I think some app servers swap out sessions to the hard drive when memory is low. You don't need more than an array of item ids and quantities, methinks, so it should be small. On 08/21/2003 06:38 PM Greg Ludington wrote: >>1. Store your cart in session, and when that all works. For everyone. >>Gets to the checkout and funds are exchanged. > > > While I agree with the previous posters who said that it would make your > life easier if you can require login, if you absolutely need to save > carts of users regardless of login status, you might consider having > your Cart object impelment > javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingListener. Objects implementing > this interface are notified when they are bound to or unbound from > (either explicitly or by the session itself expiring/invalidated) a > session, and can perform tasks at these times. > > In your case, when your Cart object is unbound you would save its > contents to your database. (Conversely, when you first bind a Cart > object to a session, you can check the database and refresh its > contents, if any.) Nothing about this approach prohibits you from > saving Cart information at other appropriate times -- user logins, > purchases, and the like -- this approach just allows you the ability to > store information, like cart contents, at the end of a client session. > > -Greg > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- struts 1.1 + tomcat 4.1.27 + java 1.4.2 Linux 2.4.20 RH9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
