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Introduction
Stateful Web Applications
Server Side State vs Client Side State
Versioning
Back Button
Page Maps
Why Does It Matter?
Identifying The Problem
Map Size
Testing
Profiling
Detachable Models
Stateful vs Stateless
Beware ...
Non-static inner classes
Non-static inner classes can access the state of the enclosing object. To do this, the byte code of the inner-class contains a reference to the outer-class instance. So, when the inner-class instace is serialised, the outer-class instance will be serialised too!
Keeping a reference to the previous page
If a page keeps a reference to a previous page (for example to implement a "back to last step" button), this will cause the "previous page" to be serialised again when the page holding the reference is serialised.
... alternative to this approach include ...