Adam Ratcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This sounded to me like they were using Cocoon as an XML data > source for binding to a Laszlo dataset requiring no > integration of the technologies. > > While a Laszlo serializer would certainly be interesting I > imagine that recompiling the SWF for each request would hurt > performance.
Don't think anyone is suggesting that you recompile a SWF for each request. > One of the key advantages I see in using RIA > technologies like Laszlo is that you get a continuous user > interface without the need to keep going back to the server > to get new pages. A precompiled SWF calling back to Cocoon > for XML data would seem to be able to do that today. We could in theory have a couple 100 different SWF's many of which are slight variations on each other. We'd generate the Laszlo source for them from Cocoon, customized for each user as needed and then send the resultant compiled SWF over to the client. Those SWF would then hang around on the client bouncing XML back and forth with Cocoon.