Howard blogs about the problem

http://howardlewisship.com/blog/2005/09/theserverside-software-problems.html

Geoff

On 9/22/05, Patrick Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:46 PM
> > To: Tapestry users
> > Subject: Re: TheServerSide.com moving away from Tapestry?
> >
> > Matt Welch wrote:
> > > http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=36654
> > >
> > > In the above referenced thread there is a reference to the TSS having
> > some
> > > serious issues with the perfromance and UI of their site
> >
> > To quote from the thread: "These are the two most severe problems TSS
> > has right now. Both are related to data, not UI (although we're aware of
> > some UI issues too)"
> >
> > So the UI is not the serious issue, the DB is.
>
>         I dunno how their code looks, but sometimes bad UI design can murder
> your database layer even if the DB layer is, itself, nominally sound. A UI
> which, for example, evaluates every joined field in a list with a separate
> request from the UI e.g. "what is user#1's manager's name? ok, how about
> user #2's manager's name ... how about user #1045? ... etc".
>
>         It's been my experience that trying to keep a theoretically sound
> separation of concerns between the two layers is usually a recipe for
> trouble. Letting the UI hint things to the DB layer about the use cases for
> data requests can go a long way towards ameliorating the problem though
> without necessarily driving a stake through your design.
>
>         --- Pat
>
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