This page provides a starting point for finding information about work areas, a WebSphere extension for improving developer productivity.
Work areas provide a capability much like that of global variables. They enable efficient sharing of information across a distributed application.
For example, you might want to add profile information as each customer enters your application. By placing this information in a work area, it is available throughout your application, eliminating the need to hand-code a solution or to read and write information to a database. More introduction...
The work area service passes information explicitly as an argument or implicitly to remote methods.
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Explore the key concepts pertaining to work areas, a WebSphere® extension for improving developer productivity. Work areas provide a capability much like that of global variables. They enable efficient sharing of information across a distributed application.