EJB is a technology, not a product. If a container
does not cache well, you can move to other containers.
For example, an Object database container can be
faster than SQL's in orders of maginitude.
--- James Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the basic mistake that people make when
> considering EJB relates to
> performance. EJB is, first and foremost, a
> transactional framework.
>
> I'm sure I will get some flak on this one, but EJB
> was designed to support
> server-side components with full transactional
> semantics in a *portable*
> manner. All of these things go *against*
> performance.
>
> This doesn't mean it is necessarily slow, but if I
> needed a very
> high-performance environment, I would focus more on
> my design. Design can
> add magnitudes of performance to a system.
> Intelligent caching of
> information can help tons. In EJB, the container
> determines the caching
> parameters for your component. For the most part,
> all beans in the container
> are cached using the same parameters. Before all of
> the vendors deluge me,
> this is a generalization (please notice the use of
> most and some) :-)
>
> Just saying, that I prefer to control my own
> environment when transactions
> are not so important and high-speed access to
> read-only objects are. This
> sounds like your situation. Like all advice, I
> suggest you try it out for
> yourself with a simple test and compare the results.
>
> jim
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Martin Friedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 5:59 AM
> Subject: Are we mad?
>
>
> > Hi everyone.
> > Great list, i've read it all gleefully.
> > Sorry that my name ist rather ordinary.
> >
> > We are working on a rather large scale Internet
> Site, every single page of
> > wich will be dynamically generated. I would be
> really thankful if someone
> > could just give us a hint if were on a plausible
> track or if were trying
> to
> > stop global warming by keeping the fridge open.
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> if the description was too general then I can
> elaborate....
> >
> > Thanx in advance
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Hamburg, Germany
> >
> >
>
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