PAS for OpenEdge can store ABL session context from the time a session Startup event procedure runs and initializes the session context, to the time a session Shutdown event procedure runs and cleans it up. ABL session context is defined by whatever state and data an ABL business application creates and applies to all PAS for OpenEdge clients. The business application can then manage this session context on a request by request basis. PAS for OE also supports session access to client context. Client context is client specific state and session data that is initialized at the time the client connects and a Connect event procedure runs, to the time the client disconnects and a Disconnect event procedure runs and cleans up this client state and data. Because PAS for OpenEdge's session-managed and session-free client connections optimize memory resources in the multi-session agent, each client's ABL event procedures and ABL requests can execute in any ABL session in any multi-session agent. You must therefore ensure that the ABL business application makes the client context available to any ABL session, running in any multi-session agent, and in any application model that your application supports. Both ABL session and client context persist in an ABL session across request boundaries. The aspect they share is that the ABL application is responsible for initializing them, maintaining them, ensuring the correct context is available for any given client's request, and for cleaning it up. PAS for OpenEdge supports both automatic and manual binding of a client to a single ABL session handling a client request (including client connection) in a multi-session agent. Automatic binding to the current ABL session handling a request happens when a PAS for OpenEdge client runs a persistent procedure, and the binding is removed when the client deletes that persistent procedure. Manual binding to a current session-managed ABL session is managed by the PAS for OpenEdge business application by setting and clearing the SESSION:SERVER-CONNECTION-BOUND-REQUEST attribute. When a client is bound to a single ABL session using either mechanism, the session can then maintain context in memory between client requests, and the PAS for OpenEdge business application can then support transaction management that allows a single database transaction to span multiple client requests."