Best way to store data server side

Our APEX (v3.1) applications use quite a bit of stored procedures to implement the business logic. What do you think is the best way to maintain some complex state on the server (where complex is anything more than a string)?
Ideally I would like to store this pl/sql object (say "table of integer index by pls_integer") in a package variable, but I suppose that connection pooling would make that impossible. I am aware of apex_util.set_session_state() but that lets me store only varchars.
Should I have to come up with my own serialization / deserialization methods in pl/sql to convert maps into strings? Seems pretty weak ...
Thanks for sharing your (I'm sure) valuable insights.
G.

Actually quite the contrary. You would think connection pooling would not allow you to do this, but every time your package is initialized, the package state is reset. It calls dbms_session.reset_package, so you can use global variables and not have to worry about another user pulling your values.
You can test it to confirm, but basically when you hit a page, the first time your package is called modplsql resets the session state. So you can set global variables in Process #1 after submit and use them in Process #5, but once your page is done, the next person to grab the connection will have the package reset using the same logic.

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