I was thinking of doing xml/xslt, but at the end of
the day I think it is much cleaner in struts/tiles
etc...

sandeep
--- Andrew Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> <snip>
> (serializing to XML just to reserialize to HTML
> seems like an unnecessary
> performance hit)
> </snip>
> 
> Yeh, Id imagine it can get pretty expensive when the
> server is under heavy
> load.
> 
> I wouldnt want to do that for amazon.com type sites
> ... although actually
> for xslt, I think the modern browsers can understand
> it, so you could just
> write the xml to the response from jsp and whatever
> it is you need to do
> tell the browser where to pull the stylesheet and
> let it do the grunt
> work... havent tried it myself though. Have you
> looked at the stxx extension
> yet?
> 
> Really though I reckon what you want to look at is
> the tiles extension, and
> for smaller 'fiddly bits' that reoccur a lot banging
> together your own jsp
> tags.
> 
> oh yeah! - The other thing you should look at
> (first!) is JSTL and/or the
> struts-el tags as I believe they support a somewhat
> more concise (and
> certainly less ugly) syntax for what your doing in
> that example.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Longwell
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 June 2003 21:27
> To: Struts-User
> Subject: My View Is Messy
> 
> 
> Morning everyone,
> 
> I have been working on an event manager application
> in Struts for about
> 3 days. I'm just getting to the point of displaying
> a monthly calendar
> full of events. I finished up the JSP last night,
> and it's a mess.
> First, there's a lot of code in it. For example, to
> print out the event
> time, name, and description looks like this:
> 
> <dt:format date="<%= event.getStartDate() %>"
> pattern="hh:mma"/> -
> <dt:format date="<%= event.getEndDate() %>"
> pattern="hh:mma"/> :
> <bean:write name="event" property="title"/><br/>
> <bean:write name="event" property="description"/>
> 
> All that code just to print this:
> 
> 4:00pm - 5:00pm : Watch TV<br/>
> Watch TV event description
> 
> Cold Fusion salespeople always tout the fact that
> Cold Fusion is
> "tag-based." I've always thought markup tags for
> dynamic content took up
> way too much space in the HTML.... I don't like Cold
> Fusion. My view is
> starting to look like Cold Fusion.
> 
> I've looking for some recommendations for better
> view frameworks. Do you
> use Velocity? Do you use an implementation of XSLT?
> How do these affect
> application performance (serializing to XML just to
> reserialize to HTML
> seems like an unnecessary performance hit)? How do
> they affect
> development time (all of them seem to require extra
> effort to develop
> (i.e. compiling a new servlet for each view, etc)?
> 
> Thanks for the recommendations,
> Aaron
> 
> 
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