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Application functions - Time saver (Simple but useful)

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Application Functions :       These are the functions written in the Application object. These are not written in the event level. Need :   When you need to perform a particular function very often. And you feel invoking a Business Service for this involves more line of code. Scenario/Use case :      We had to store a lot of lengthy URL to be opened from within siebel.  Issues in using LOV:    As most of you know storing value with in LOV has a text length limitation to 30 characters. So most of our URL did not oblige to it. Alternate:   We created a customized table to store the values as Name & Value pair. And we need to access it from this table when we needed to.  How To:    We can write a simple script to do this. but where? We thought of doing it in application level. Like the example below, ** use proper coding standards this is just an example code. So once this is set, we invoke this code every time by the code given below,