- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:49:58 -0400
- To: www-tag@w3.org
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:21:18PM -0400, Mark Baker wrote: > > We see a prototypical stateful application from the client perspective. > > The application has 2 states: logged-in and not-logged-in. This state > > may be realized by storing state on the client or on the server. > > I suspect you're just referring to what some (myself included) call > "session state". I've heard this state called "application state" > before, but avoid the term because I find it too easy to confuse with > the state of the application state machine, e.g. "selected 'from' > account", "selected 'to' account", "entering amount", etc... Erm, nevermind. Those states are also session state. I should have referred to resource state, e.g. the bank account balance. "application state" is sometimes used to refer to resource state too. Up for producing a glossary? 1/2 8-) Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com
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