Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

Chapter 17. Session State Patterns

Client Session State

Stores session state on the client.

How It Works

Even the most server-oriented designs need at least a little Client Session State, if only to hold a session identifier. With some applications you can consider putting all of the session data on the client, in which case the client sends the full set of session data with each request and the server sends back the full session state with each response. This allows the server to be completely stateless.

Most of the time you’ll want to use Data Transfer Object (401) to handle the data transfer. The Data Transfer Object (401) can serialize itself over the wire and thus allow even complex data to be transmitted.

The client also needs to store ...