Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: >Cocoon is a complex beast, we all know this, but I find it irritating >that people believe that cocoon is slow just because they *perceive* it >to be so. > >Now, can't we polish the component manager to load packages only when >they are required? > >This would also partially solve the problems of Batik requiring an X >Server: if you don't ask for the Batik classes, they are not loaded and >we don't have any problems (and we save lots of memory and lots of >startup time). > >What do you think? > This is a well-known problem : developpers often complain about the long compile-and-test round-trip time, and when making a demo on laptop to a customer, you need good talking abilities to fill the time needed by Cocoon to warm up :(
We have here two contradictory siturations : - in development/demo phases, we want fast startup, which means load-on demand. Also, we don't care if some parts of our app. won't run because of a misconfiguration, missing class or wrong enviromnent : we just don't use them for the demo and everything's ok. - in production phase, we don't care about startup time, but want to be sure everything's ok at startup. This means load-on-startup, because we don't want the app. to barf at the face of the first browser using a missing / misconfigured component which could have been detected early. Avalon's ComponentManager only loads at startup today (including filling the pools). We can update it to support both strategies. The choice between them could be done using a Context entry coming from the servlet init parameters. We could then change the loading strategy with a single line in web.xml. Thoughts ? Also, about Batik : if your app. doesn't produce dynamic images, don't declare the SVG serializer and Batik won't load. Otherwhise, you're very likely to need an X server to render the images ;) Finally [shameless plug], don't forget the TreeProcessor which greatly improves sitemap load time ! Sylvain -- Sylvain Wallez Anyware Technologies - http://www.anyware-tech.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
