Taking Advantage of SharePoint Session State Management

Knowing that the custom web application (which sits on top of SharePoint) that I am developing will be hosted by two web servers for high availability, I have designated a less-loaded back-end server as the State Server to host the session state of both web servers. Having gone through all the ropes on how to setup the State Server, at the end I found out that actually, nothing needs to be done. SharePoint 2007's Shared Services Provider has configured the web frontend to make use of SQL Server for state management. By default, state management using SQL Server is turned on when SSP is configured. It still can be turned on/off at SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration --> Application Management --> Office SharePoint Servers Shared Services --> Configure session state. A quick test shows that the session variables stored by the custom web application were indeed stored and retrieved successfully in between requests from different web servers. I guess that is another plus point for developing application on top of SharePoint. More information about MOSS state at http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/ffa4a256-6885-4295-a712-537ce82b9a0c1033.mspx?mfr=true.