Adrian,
That's why I suggested caching the widgets themselves. If the discussion
is about a site that is getting a million hits per day, then caching the
widgets should offer some level of improvement.
Reading and parsing the widget xml file might seem to go fast, but the
reality is that every page request requires an xml file read, element
parsing, converting parsed elements into a collection of java classes,
and some validation. With a hypothetical million-hit-per-day site, all
of those steps are repeated millions of times per day. Why not do those
steps once, and then cache the result?
-Adrian
aren't widget definitions already cached?
Jacopo
