Yes David. As I said in my other replies, I had made a connection (n-tier to web) where there wasn't one.

Cheers,

JimN

>Jim,
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>>Is there some connection between "stateless code" and n-tier that I am missing. I certainly have never equated n-tier with 'stateless' in any way, shape or form.
>>Just trying to learn of yet more stuff I've likely missed.
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>My comment was, of course, in the context of Web development, where you definitely have to deal with "stateless" concepts. Web development forces you into physical n-Tier, since part of the app must live and run on an Internet server.
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>Technically, you can have a logical n-Tier design that is not stateless, but your options for physically deploying those tiers are severely limited if not designed to be stateless.