>You [Mark Lowe] said:
>Perhaps HttpSession is a blunt instrument, and would need to be substituted by another persistence >mechanism like say writing to a temporary text file, but IMO this would be something that one >would want to fix in the case that something were broken.
Hi, Mark,
Your reading "generating dynamic views" as somehow relating to alternative forms of persistence is not correct. The idea is to get AWAY from this PERSISTENCE solution and to start using view LOGIC.
Michael
>And you [Mark Lowe] said:
>i know its a naive position but I thought part of the scope of the java language was in part an >attempt to abstract software development from the hardware.
Yes. But you are misreading completely what I said. I have no idea how you got to here from what I said. I was doing the opposite, viz. trying to get you to deal with an API for the logic of your views. This has nothing remotely to do with persistent mechanisms or hardware. I suspect we are two ships passing in the night here.
> You [Mark Lowe] said:
>Okay agreed that generating hidden fields would be a reasonable means of persistence. Yes I was >assuming, perhaps in error, that what was being suggested was writing hidden fields. In fact I think >I may do this. Also agreed that if the webforms dont have a load of in the jsp then fine and dandy
Generating hidden fields has nothing to do with a "means of persistence". Rather, this is merely a way to generate hidden fields relating to the logic of the view, e.g. if you come from one page, you hidden fields will be one thing, but if you come from another page, your hidden fields will be another thing. Your use of the session object is not really a persistence mechanism, Mark. It is a shotgun data mining technique for the view. The suggestion is to substitute a scalpel data mining technique for the shotgun.
We more on all fours now?
Michael McGrady
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