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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

by Martin Fowler
November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
16h 4m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 6. Session State

When we talked about concurrency, we raised the issue of the difference between business and system transactions (Chapter 5, page 74). As well as affecting concurrency, this difference affects how to store the data that’s used within a business transaction but isn’t yet ready to be committed to the general database of record.

The differences between business and system transactions underlie much of the debate over stateless versus stateful sessions. There’s been a lot written about this issue, but in my view the basic problem is often disguised behind the technical questions of stateless and stateful server systems. I think the fundamental issue is realizing that some sessions are inherently stateful and then deciding ...

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