<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chandru</b> <<a href="mailto:chandrashekhar.mullaparthi@gmail.com">chandrashekhar.mullaparthi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> It isn't quite what you are imagining it to be :-)<br><br>> Assuming you identify a user's HTTP session by means of a cookie and<br>> you start a state machine to guide the customer through a payment<br>
> process. Each time your state machine's State gets updated, you could<br>> save it mnesia with the Cookie as the key. The next time another<br>> request comes along, you can spawn a new state machine process which
<br>> initialises itself with the state in mnesia and then handles the<br>> request.</blockquote><div><br>Haha - I see. That's a much more familiar process for me, although if process can be serialized that would be quite interesting indeed.
<br><br>Thanks,<br>yc<br><br></div></div>