I've created two sample applications that show the performance difference. The problem is that I have two zip files, one for each project (Eclipse/MyEclipse project) and they're each over 5MB (because of supporting jars). That means I can't attach them to a Jira issue. I'd like to send them out so you can see what I'm talking about.
Basically, the sample apps each do exactly the same thing but one uses ww1 and the other xwork/ww2. A simple "company" object is loaded up and the page is filled using the custom "pageset" construct I've created. It's a cached configuration object that says how a page should be laid out (it's something I use to help codify common page design, so I don't have to screw around with html/jsp/velocity or what have you for pages that all follow the same layout pattern). I realize that this pageset thing is unusual but it's not the problem, since it renders fine with ww1. The sample apps don't do any database calls, so it's obvious that the performance hit comes somewhere in the render cycle. What I'm seeing, consistently, on the same server, is the following: ww1: 10-20ms load ww2: 190-250ms load That's a pretty big difference, and again, these pages aren't doing anything special or any database calls. I'm guessing that part of it is in how velocity is being used, or perhaps something to do with searching the ognl stack (since the stack is used for things like getting object properties or creating instances of utility classes). One other thing: the copy of the webwork2 jar I'm using has been modified to add a "$webwork" utility class to the velocity stack on a request. This copies the way things were done in ww1. of course, my fumbling around with this in ww2 may have caused the performance hit. I can supply the modifications upon request. They're also in a current JIRA issue as attachments, at issue # WW251. Please let me know how I can get the sample projects to anyone who's interested. I think this simple example would go a long way towards understanding how to optimize ww2. Thanks, Drew -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew McAuliffe Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 3:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OS-webwork] Re: Performance diff bw ww1 and ww2? I've moved from Tomcat to oc4j and the numbers have improved considerably. So at this point, it's not a complete hassle like it was before. Though now I'm interested to see how fast the old version would have worked on oc4j. The results I was getting were consistent across both Tomcat 4.1.x and 5.0. It seems to happen with the render cycle, as I said. I haven't had time to profile it but I'll get on it this week. I have a feeling, and this is just a guess, that it might have something to do with the similarity between ognl and velocity syntax? I'm not sure but I should have some sort of information soon. One of the other things I'm going to try to do is use the ww2 tags to duplicate some of what I'm doing in velocity macros now. I'll try to replace my usage of macros with component tags and see how it works out. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
