Which approach would you use?

[James Yong]

Hi,

We would normally cache some info to avoid accessing database everytime.
My question is whether it is ideal to keep such information (which isn't
huge in my case)
in the sessions of Tomcat (btw, i am not using EJB) which have native
implementation for session clustering.
Or should I just use a Cache like OSCache?

Regards,
James Yong

 

[Wibble]

Hi,

We would normally cache some info to avoid accessing database everytime.
My question is whether it is ideal to keep such information (which isn't
huge in my case)
in the sessions of Tomcat (btw, i am not using EJB) which have native
implementation for session clustering.
Or should I just use a Cache like OSCache?

Regards,
James Yong

Is this data used across multiple sessions?

 

[James Yong]

Is this data used across multiple sessions?

No. The data is specific to each session.

 

[HalcyonWild]

No. The data is specific to each session.

You might want to keep user session specific common data (like
preferences) in the session.

If it is something that is used across all sessions, and common to all
users who log in, you might want a singleton cache. Data like State
Names like Arizona, Washington, NY, CA etc go here.