For what it's worth, here are my thoughts... I never gave Sitemesh a serious try, though maybe I should as it seems to be very popular lately. I must say that I think it does not give me much confidence looking at the release notes and looking at the pace that is worked on the project (which does not seem to be very fast for a project with quite a few outstanding bug reports). But... I could be wrong and maybe it is great to use.
Now, about your top and side bars. Personally I would not have a problem to do some proper logic coding in the view (and maybe use some logic centric components to keep the view clean) AS LONG as you do not have to handle flow stuff in the top and side bars. The kind of processing that goes on in your top and side bars are - even if the processing is complex - probably allways the same. Another option (that I never tried myself but heard good things about from a collegue) you could have a look at is Tapestry (http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry/index.html). Completely different from Maverick (and the like), but looks very useful for some situations. Has anyone reading this list experience with Tapestry? Just my two cents ;) Eelco ----- Original Message ----- From: "DEO Kedar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 5:59 PM Subject: [Mav-user] Sitemesh or view transforms? Hi, All of the pages im my application have top menu navigation, and side navigation bars, which are seperate pages. I want to know if there is any performance metrics available of using maverick view transformation, and using Sitemesh to assemble the page. If no metrics, at least any thoughts on this? The menus and side navigation are role based, so there will be lot of logic going into building these side and top nav views. Thanks, Deo ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps [INVALID FOOTER] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 [INVALID FOOTER]
