Some people claim that Cocoon has no added value used with Laszlo since any MVC-like application (Struts & Co.) can use Laszlo just with a XML parser.
Caching of SWF, by itself, could be a good reason to use Cocoon along with Laszlo. bye, Luca Garulli www.OrienTechnologies.com On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 08:39:37 +0200, Sylvain Wallez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hunsberger, Peter wrote: > > >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. > > > > > > Exactly. > > And the produced SWF data would be stored in the Cocoon cache, thus > avoiding recreating them from scratch each time a particular SWF is > requested. Just as we already do today with all other formats. > > > > Sylvain > > -- > Sylvain Wallez Anyware Technologies > http://www.apache.org/~sylvain http://www.anyware-tech.com > { XML, Java, Cocoon, OpenSource }*{ Training, Consulting, Projects } > >
