Using on-device data in place of cookies

In interactions with your channel's Web server, cookies work just like cookies in the desktop Internet world. Users' cookies are passed back and forth between M-Business Server and your channel's Web server, and those cookies are used by the Web server the same way they would be in the desktop Internet world.

With M-Business Anywhere, however, the cookies are not stored locally where the browser is running (on the device), but in M-Business Server's database. This means that your application cannot use values stored in cookies to determine what to do next.

M-Business Anywhere provides two on-device database options that you can use in your applications: