How to decode viewstate

Here’s an online ViewState decoder: http://ignatu.co.uk/ViewStateDecoder.aspx Edit: Unfortunatey, the above link is dead – here’s another ViewState decoder (from the comments): http://viewstatedecoder.azurewebsites.net/

Advantages of Cache vs Session

One important difference is, that items in the cache can expire (will be removed from cache) after a specified amount of time. Items put into a session will stay there, until the session ends. ASP.NET can also remove items from cache when the amount of available memory gets small. Another difference: the session state can … Read more

com.sun.faces.numberOfViewsInSession vs com.sun.faces.numberOfLogicalViews

First of all, the Mojarra implementation unintentionally swapped the meaning of those context parameters. So if you have the impression that the description is exactly the other way round than what the literal context parameter name implies, then this is indeed true. com.sun.faces.numberOfLogicalViews This is basically GET request based. Every GET request creates a new … Read more