GAC - Context - Cache

[Prad]

Newbie question related to assemblies in GAC

If I have a business component in the GAC, and the component uses some
context (say it is a windows application ... and so i manually set up a

context ) ...to cache some variables. Will this cache be long-lived and

shared across all sharing applications?
Also if I have some static constructors in some of the classes, when
will they be invoked -- do the normal rules apply here too that they
will be invoked only the first time any shared assembly tries to access

them ?

[Mattias Sjögren]

>Will this cache be long-lived and

>
shared across all sharing applications?

No, the assembly is loaded once per application, and you'll have one
copy of the data per appdomain.

>Also if I have some static constructors in some of the classes, when
will they be invoked -- do the normal rules apply here too that they
will be invoked only the first time any shared assembly tries to access

them ?

Yes. Again, once per loaded instance of the assembly.
Mattias

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[Prad]

Mattias,
I greatly appreciate your quick help on this!

Just curious - so is there a way at all for a business component to
cache date on the app server, to be visible by multiple app domains
which would later load this component. (I mean a design pattern if any)

Thanks again!
Mattias Sjögren wrote:

Will this cache be long-lived and

shared across all sharing applications?

No, the assembly is loaded once per application, and you'll have one
copy of the data per appdomain.

Also if I have some static constructors in some of the classes, when
will they be invoked -- do the normal rules apply here too that they
will be invoked only the first time any shared assembly tries to access

them ?

Yes. Again, once per loaded instance of the assembly.
Mattias

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