From stateless and state-aware Web objects, you can create three kinds of WebSpeed applications:
Stateless
State-passing
State-persistent
Stateless WebSpeed application are composed entirely of stateless Web objects and static files. No information is retained between Web requests.
State-passing WebSpeed applications are also composed entirely of stateless Web objects and static files. However context information is passed to the WebSpeed agent from the client through URL query strings, HTML form fields, and cookies.
State-persistent applications are composed of one or more state-aware Web objects. The WebSpeed agent is locked to the browser for a specified period of time and context between client requests is maintained. These are also called WebSpeed transactions or state-persistent transactions.