> > > I'm starting to delve into Cocoon, Jetspeed, and Turbine for some > servlet projects. They seem to be very well-engineered efforts that > do a great job of adding the right layers of abstraction. But one > question crossed my mind: What's the most _efficient_ way to put > together the content and get it out the door? Not the most object > oriented way, or the most elegant. I just wonder if anyone's tested > the speed of appending information to Strings, StringBuffers and what > not. Did anyone think about this? > > It's not clear to me that this knowledge is important because I often > find that better design pays off more in the long run. Faster > machines cover up all of those slow parts. :-) > > But I guess I'm just being academic. > > -Peter Of course we thought about it. Duh. You are being academic...when it comes to doing large complex web applications I willingly give up speed for better design. I want someone to come along 6 months from now and be able to understand my code. Also, since these projects are OS, I want to attract developers to well designed and implemented code that makes their lives easier. Yes, speed is a concern, but the way that we are doing things really doesn't slow stuff down that much...especially given everything that it benefits... As you say, faster machines cover up all those slow parts...also the fact that Apache JServ can be setup in a n-tier distributed manner really helps as well... -jon ------------------------------------------------------------ To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
