[Cialug] java web toolkits

[carl-olsen at mchsi.com]

I don't have a slow connection to test it with, so maybe my solution isn't the greatest.  I mostly work on intranet applications where I know what connection speed my users will have.

The alternative would be to send an ajax call to another page that retrieves the data from the database and returns it to the ajax call.  I'm not sure what the performance would be, but you are correct that the page should initially load faster if it's not pulling that data into JavaScript arrays while the page is loading.

I would not use a framework for this unless I had other reasons for using a framework.  I'm playing with symfony right now, but it will not run inside the CMS I have to integrate it with.  I'm using the ORM part of symfony to create my PHP objects, which is definitely a big advantage.

Carl

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Dave Weis <djweis at internetsolver.com>
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> carl-olsen at mchsi.com wrote:
> > Another option is to load all the data into JavaScript arrays and simply use 
> DHTML to make it look like the page is using AJAX.  Of course, it all depends on 
> the amount of data you have.
> 
> There's only about 150 options available for that particular one. It 
> just gets a bit chunky loading the pages on a slow connection.
> 
> dave
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