Hey, For a prelude: I was chatting with my dad over a beer about how the company he works for is training all of their HR people on how to use Dreamweaver to generate content for their internet/intranets. Appalled, I asked him whose bright idea was it; to which he responded some independent consultant who was touring the various facilities doing training (and he's never heard of Jakob Neilsen!). To give a 100 person staff a copy of Dreamweaver and tell them to go nuts... is insane!
Now for the meat: I am going to be putting together some knowledge-base material for my dad on the advantages of XML and the Java platform. Particularly XSLT, FOP, Xalan transformation servlets, etc. They will be generating training/informational material that could be viewed on the web or printed. Since I'm a big speed freak when it comes to dynamic content, I am under the belief that Model 2 would only slow the requests down even more, beyond the straight pulling of data from the DB and iterating it out with Struts. It seems to be rationalized tradeoff between portability and speed. Would writing the xml data out statically and storing it, then using translets for XSLT offer any speed improvements over simply caching with OSCache or other similar tags? Basically, any rants about Java and XML will help, I've read quite a bit, but any personal experiences would be appreciated! Jacob Hookom Comprehensive Computer Science University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.375 / Virus Database: 210 - Release Date: 7/10/2002 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
