Hello JCS users and developers,
I just put our first JCS enabled site up to production and the pages using the cache are loading *much* faster. Thanks for making JCS! I have some questions as to the 'right way' to do some things in JCS. A) Currently, I am putting Torque objects into the cache. Is this bad? Are they serializable? I suppose it would be 'cleaner' to write a Bean to represent every cached entity in my system instead of using Torque objects, and then put the Beans in the cache, but it just seems like more work and QA. Plus, when I get a Torque object in-hand, I allow the .vm to traverse as much of the data tree it needs to display what it wants to show (with the built-in torque accessors). It's so convenient. Note that this causes my JCS cache to continually grow (and also get faster), as the Torque objects themselves cache things they load. B) What's the best way to keep the results of different groupings of the same/similar objects in the cache. For example, I have a set of Customer objects that are grouped many different ways for display on our website. For example, on some pages the active customers are listed alphabetically, on others I show a few of them at random, and on another they're shown by category. On yet other pages, I only show a subset of them based on different criteria. Currently this is all handled by different selects straight from the database, which I want to avoid. Right now I'm putting lists and maps in the cache for each grouping, like 'AllCustomers', 'Advertisers', 'CustomersByAlphabet', etc. This means, however, that whenever anyone adds or removes an object from the CustomerCache, or there is a cache miss, I rebuild all these lists (which takes about 3-4 seconds). I also only want one instantiation of each entity actually in the cache at any time, even if it's pointed to by different groups. I believe the 'groups' feature in JCS is supposed to help with this, but I've seen messages that that's not ready for prime time. Also, the correct way to use the groups wasn't obvious enough for me to try that right out of the gate. Any comments or code samples out there? Thanks for any help, and thanks for the great system! Jeff Jones www.franchise.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
