Application states

It is possible to take snapshots of the current state of the application and store it to files (or Apis items). Even though the application files also contain snapshot information it also contains configuration information making the files large and relatively slow to open. As opposed to this the state files generally become small and very fast to open.

The state files contain what is needed for an application to reach the same state as it was in when the states were persisted. It depends largely on the component what is considered to be the states. In addition to the inner states of the components, the port values are persisted.

A state file will only work and load the correct if the application has not changed since when the states were persisted.

The location of the states files are controlled in the server settings.