> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Cooper [mailto:martin.cooper@;tumbleweed.com] > Subject: RE: Unclear semantics on form use for "wizards" > > You have to decide where you want to be bitten. ;-) Yes, you > may end up > writing a bunch of hidden fields. But if you don't, then > you're filling up > valuable memory with session data, potentially reducing the number of > concurrent users your application can support.
A half gig of memory cost $150 bucks. 512M = a quarter million 2K HashSets. If I can get a quarter million users onto a single Tomcat instance, drinks are on me. But the flipside is that's one hour of time with a good programmer. I'm not sure that the outrageous effort to robustly send hidden fields back and forth on the network is worth the effort, especially given security considerations to leaving session state on the client. I'd rather buy the mems, tell the programmers to use what they need, have the security of local state, and have an architecture that I can hire mere mortals to maintain in the future. $0.02... -b -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
