Advantages and Disadvantages of using view state for state management

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What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of using view state for state         management 

        

     Advantages

• View state is easy to implement. We can easily enable or disable view state at the page level or at the controller level
• They are not using any server side resources. It is stored in the client side browser in a hidden field.
• View state is secure because it stores the data in encrypted format.
• It is good with HTTP data transfer      

     Disadvantages

• View state information cannot transfer across pages automatically.
• If the view state information is very large, it may cause the page load/ post back to be slow.
• Mobile devices might not have the enough memory capacity to store a large view state data.