Best practice for onActivate and onPassivate without persistence

[Peter Stavrinides]

Hi everyone,

I was wandering about best practice for passing multiple parameters to a page 
without using persist in the mix. Take the following example:

void onActivate(Integer companyId, Integer siteId) throws SQLException {
    _site = getSite(companyId,siteId);
}

CompanySite onPassivate(){
        return _site;
}       

This works okay for my purposes... I like it because its stateless, however is 
CompanySite being serialized underneath? how expensive could that potentially 
be (we use some extreme objects)...  If so then an uglier way could be better? 
perhaps:

String onPassivate(){
   return _site.getCId() + "/" + _site.getSiteId();
}       


thanks for your help,
Peter

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