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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
