Hi,
I am not sure whether this is a question to be raised in this forum. But I am pretty
sure bright people in this group would offer me valuable input.
Plus I feel this decision is going to affect my OOD to code generation ( with Rose ,
of course) step extensively.
We have an application that has 2 database tables that hold presentation information
as:
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Table :- screens_info
Contents of a record :- what is the background color , title , link colors etc. for a
screen in the application
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Table :- tables_info
Contents of a record :- what is the format of a column of a table that needs to be
displayed such as heading , data-type , textbox/listbox etc. , needs to be presented
in presentable version , width
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I was thinking for a java solution and use XML instead of database presentation
tables. There will be multiple XSL and XML for this presentation info.
I need to justify this approach to my colleagues.
Here are some points:
FOR -->
1. Database is not a good way for storing presentation info. whereas XML is
2. Later on we can change it easily if required as well as talk more effectively
with other applications ( which is our need in near future )
3. For each screen load and reload , we need not access database presentation
tables. Improves performance
Against -->
1. It's fine for saying not to store the data in database , but ultimately we
have to access the XML and the files etc.
2. I am planning to use XSQL servlet from Oracle that basically will handle the
query execution part and return a proper output as I am going to specify with a
stylesheet
This poses a danger in case tomorrow we plan to deal with some other database
than Oracle. So instead of that I can go for java beans and XMl parsers.
I am not able to exactly specify the advantages of storing presentation info. in XML.
Please guide me and correct if I am wrong. I badly need help on this decision.
Thanks
-kg
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