Wouter, Thanks for the detailed reply. I agree with your points. I just try to understand the different statements and you have made the point clear to me.
Thanks for that, Holger On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:16:38 +0100, Wouter Zoons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure but I assume he means that you would need a Collection to hold > the values that make up the list, the complete list that is. > > It's not scaleable in the sense that ideally only the data shown on screen > should have been loaded, not all the records on the other pages too. > > On the other hand, it depends on what you use it for .. do you really want > to list a million records ? I don't think so .. IMO it is a good idea to > have an upper limit to the number of records, when that limit is reach you > can display a warning saying "more than X records found, please refine your > search" or something .. > > So basically you never load X records, for example with Hibernate you can > specify to list no more than X records .. > > But again, the best thing would be to be able to have a displaytag call > delegated directly to the persistence layer and retrieve the next/previous > page of data (since this can be optimized by the DB by already loading it in > the background while you're still reading the current page). Being able to > do so would inherently be against well-known J2EE design patterns (ie. > shielding presentation from persistence using the business layer) > > Anyway, I don't see/know any alternatives to displaytag so ... > > -- Wouter > > Ps: anyway, I was talking about _tabs_, not _tables_ .. any comments ? :-) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Holger Winkelmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 8:44 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: andromda-user > > Subject: Re: [Andromda-user] request for comments: dropping tabs from the > > bpm4struts cartridge > > > > little bit OT here, but I read on TTS displaytag, used in bpm4struts, > > is not scalable ??? can you explain what they mean. > > > > see 2nd comment on this thread: > > > > http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=30529 > > > > Thanks, > > > > Holger > > -- Holger Winkelmann ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Andromda-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-user
