lol Reminds me of something I heard a year or two back (from a friend of a friend...) about how one of the state governments in Australia paid a consultant $30k or some such ridiculous figure to study how government departments could improve their service. The resulting reports main recomendation was that each phone in government offices have a pen and paper placed next to it - that way when a call came in they would be able to take a message if the person being phoned was not in so that they could get the number and call back.
Im not sure if they had to commision a second study to figure out where to cut the budget in order to have enough money to buy the pens... ;-) -----Original Message----- From: Jacob Hookom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 14:30 To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: Model 2 and Caching Hey, For a prelude: I was chatting with my dad over a beer about how the company he works for is training all of their HR people on how to use Dreamweaver to generate content for their internet/intranets. Appalled, I asked him whose bright idea was it; to which he responded some independent consultant who was touring the various facilities doing training (and he's never heard of Jakob Neilsen!). To give a 100 person staff a copy of Dreamweaver and tell them to go nuts... is insane! Now for the meat: I am going to be putting together some knowledge-base material for my dad on the advantages of XML and the Java platform. Particularly XSLT, FOP, Xalan transformation servlets, etc. They will be generating training/informational material that could be viewed on the web or printed. Since I'm a big speed freak when it comes to dynamic content, I am under the belief that Model 2 would only slow the requests down even more, beyond the straight pulling of data from the DB and iterating it out with Struts. It seems to be rationalized tradeoff between portability and speed. Would writing the xml data out statically and storing it, then using translets for XSLT offer any speed improvements over simply caching with OSCache or other similar tags? Basically, any rants about Java and XML will help, I've read quite a bit, but any personal experiences would be appreciated! Jacob Hookom Comprehensive Computer Science University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.375 / Virus Database: 210 - Release Date: 7/10/2002 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
