I believe Scott is working on this for 1.3, he can probably give more info than I can. I'm strictly speaking about WW 2.0.
-Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 11:07 PM Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Velocity as the UI widgets [WW 2.0] > Given that for some of us the dev meeting is at an unearthly hour of the > morning :) (I am at GMT + 9.5) I'll comment here. > > Please can we have this in WW 1.3 ? What will it mean in terms of jars > needed in our web application ? > > > On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 17:17, Patrick Lightbody wrote: > > I just ran some tests, inspired by Scotts work on getting Velocity in place > > for the UI tags. I took it one step further and got rid rd.include() > > entirely (Like Scott had mentioned) and the performance boost was icredible. > > > > Basically, if we lock down to using velocity for the -UI tags- (note, this > > means that JSP views would still work), we get like a 10X performance > > increase as well as a huge scaling increase. I mean, it's so huge that it > > would be dumb for us not to take it. And mind you, I ran these tests on > > Orion and Resin, two of the fastest JSP implementations. > > > > So I'm going to un-propose my suggestion about using SiteMesh for the UI > > tags and instead propose that we stick 100% to only supporting > > velocity-based taglibs. Your JSP views will still look and act exactly the > > same: > > > > .... > > <ww:textfield ... /> > > ... > > > > The only difference is that instead of the TextFieldTag issueing an > > rd.include() request to some unknown URL (JSP or velocity), it uses Velocity > > to write -directly- to the JspWriter: > > > > template.merge(context, pageContext.getOut()); > > > > All the same support would exist (themes, tweaking, etc), but it would just > > be much faster. The downside is that if you have custom UI widgets, you'll > > have to convert them to velocity. > > > > Thoughts? Actually, don't write back to this. Instead, just show up to the > > dev meeting tomorrow. > > > > -Pat > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > > http://www.vasoftware.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > -- > Peter Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Moveit Pty Ltd > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
