Hi All,
I am new to struts, and I have the following questions:
We have a web application already in production, we use EJB in backend,
servlet in front end, we did it this way, back end session bean will
generate XML data, and pass to front end servlet, the servlet will call XSL
translator to transform it to html, the beauty part for this is, if we
change xsl file, the same xml file will be dispayed in different layout,
this is good for customer's branding, because different customers may have
different view requirement ? Have struts taken this in mind? Since I saw it
always mention jsp as view layer, as my understanding, jsp is wlays with
fixed layout, is there anything I am missing? Some people may say, well you
could wrapp the translation stuff in JavaBean, then I don't think jsp is
necessary here, since servlet is faster than jsp, since html was generated
by xsl transformation, jsp has no benefit here.
But there is a performance with our approach, since we need to use xsl
translator all the places, and xsl translator does have some performance
issue in loading and pasing xsl file, fortunately we have a workaround for
this, we compiled xsl to java class first, and rely on JVM class loader to
load class to handle xml file, since Java has some cache machanism, it
really does some helpe. I am just wondering wether there is any similiar
project around?
Thanks
Regards
Jinsong
