Adobe® ColdFusion® 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started

Chapter 19. Working with Sessions

In This Chapter

Addressing the Web’s Statelessness

Using Cookies to Remember Preferences

Using Client Variables

Using Session Variables

Working with onSessionStart and onSessionEnd

Locking Revisited

In Chapter 18, “Introducing the Web Application Framework,” you learned about application variables, which live in your ColdFusion server’s memory between page requests. You also learned that application variables are shared between all pages in your application. There are plenty of uses for application variables, but because they aren’t maintained separately for each user, they don’t go far in helping you create a personalized site experience.

This chapter continues the discussion of the Web application framework, ...