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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
