[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Question - JSF Render Response phase and Data access

2005-12-13 Thread patrick_ibg
Maybe I'm missing something, but it still seems to me that your problem is 
easily handled by context variables and view mappings. I assume you are using a 
standard MVC architecture?

You are not limited to just failure and success outcomes... and the event 
that is fired (the method invocation) is only very loosely tied to the outcome.

True, you can probably create custom view handlers to resolve the views after 
the InvokeApplication phase, but I don't think that's necessary in your case.


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[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Question - JSF Render Response phase and Data access

2005-12-12 Thread patrick_ibg
Typically, persistent entities are placed in a context (application, session, 
conversation or event/request) during the InvokeApplication phase.

The render response will then have access to these entities. It may or may not 
hit the database to render the page, depending on whether the entities have 
lazy-fetched associations, however this is mostly transparent to the developer, 
esp. if you are using JSF/Seam/EJB3.

InvokeApplication is where you normally code your business logic, or call other 
layers that implement the biz logic. In the JSF/Seam/EJB3 stack, this code 
resides in a JSF backing bean which can be an EJB session bean. Seam acts as 
the glue which makes the EJB session bean appear to JSF as a backing bean.

anonymous wrote : 
  | I understand that most applications will not want to go to the database 
twice - once for the event update and the second to obtain the new pages data. 
However, there are a class of applications where this is very important - as a 
example personalized apps. 
  | 

This cannot be avoided. Unless you want to code a stored proc for each instance 
of these interactions, you will have to hit the db at least twice. After all 
you are issuing two SQL statements (an UPDATE and a SELECT). This really isn't 
an issue with webapps, since the webapp and the db layer are both on the server 
side, and there is very little network latency. Add connection pooling, 
prepared statements and caching and you wind up with a highly performant stack.

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[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Question - JSF Render Response phase and Data access

2005-12-12 Thread timpii
Thanks for the thoughtful response Patrick. 

Maybe a Use Case would help me explain better. Say the application has a Global 
Processing Rule - that if there is unsaved dirty data on a page the user will 
always be provided the option to save it before the system processes all 
navigation requests - but that the save request and the navigation need to be 
accomplished in one round trip. (This rule is a requirement that is included in 
most of the apps I have worked on.)

With a left navigation frame, potential top and/or bottom navigation 
controls, and content boxes throughout the pages a user could navigate to/from 
a particular functionality from 50+ different pages - all of which could be 
subject to the save/update event of the global processing rule. 

An example of this would be a user who is entering a batch of accounts payable 
invoices suddenly selects to edit/add a vendor (or GL number / or any number of 
other functionalities). When the user selects to save (within the global 
processing rule), the user request will be to update of the current invoice 
batch information, and then secondarily to navigate to manage vendors which 
requires separate domain information.

I can see how the inclusion of the navigation URI becomes a variable in the 
user event. However, the user event request has to be the save operation on the 
save invoice batch when the user requests it. 

The URI the user wants to navigate to can easily be managed as the second tier 
return string from the InvokeApplication phase (first tier success / 
failure etc. for a normal submit). However, somewhere there needs to be a 
mapping of a URI to the application service which provides the domain data for 
the page.

My original thinking is that it would be the most efficient to have that 
mapping within the page navigation definition. Thus a page would know the 
service responsible for obtaining the necessary domain information. 

The fallback position is to maintain a separate mapping that would be 
accessible within the app layer (InvokeApplication phase) but then you have a 
duplicate mapping that needs to remain in sync with the navigation mapping - 
something that is always problematic.

Currently the only way I can think of to accomplish the first choice would be 
to have a callback capability within the Navigation Handler to support the 
obtaining the necessary data after the page has been determined (i.e a 
configuration of the service which obtains the data).  

So the problem is not going to the database 2 or more times - the problem is 
from any page a user can navigate to numerous other pages - but the user event 
still needs to remain an update source page data event. 

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