If there is a minimal amount of context that needs to be maintained between each request and you have limited computing resources that need to service a large client load, the stateless operating mode might be the appropriate choice for your application. This increases your ability to service a large number of clients, because no AppServer agent is dedicated to any particular client. The minimal context that needs to be maintained between requests can be stored either in the SERVER-CONNECTION-CONTEXT attribute or within an application-specific context database. No matter where you store the context, you probably want to use the Activate and Deactivate procedures to manage that context for each request.