Good info Craig... So do I understand correctly then that you can specify
multiple config files for an app regardless of module usage (well, one with
just the "default" module really)? I thought I saw someone mention a CSV list
in the ActionServlet init param, is that all there is to it?... If so, I don't
think I was aware of that, definitely not fully anyway, and thank you for
pointing it out :)
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: "Craig McClanahan"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 6/18/05 1:05:17 AM
To: "Struts Users Mailing List"<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: long struts-config.xml file
On 6/17/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The longest I have is 173 action mappings. I haven't noticed any
> performance problems with it. Struts basically loads it once at startup
> and from then on it's in-memory, so the only potential problem I could
> imagine is lookup speed, but that doesn't seem to be an issue.
>
In particular, all the configuration data for a single Struts module
is loaded into a single set of HashMaps, no matter how many separate
configuration files are used for that module. Map sizes in the
hundreds are duck soup on modern JVMs.
> Breaking it up makes sense as others have said from an organizational
> standpoint. But, if your application doesn't make sense in multiple
> modules, and some don't, then it's probably not a big problem... be sure
> to have lots of comments in the config file and group things as logically
> as possible, much like writing any code!, and a few hundred shouldn't be
> an unmanageable number.
>
The largest Struts based configuration I've ever personally seen had
many hundreds of actions, and a similar number of form beans and so
on. They organized things with a separate configuration file for each
logical segment of the applicaton (independent of whether it was going
to be a separate Struts module or not). This wasn't done for
performance reasons; it was much more related to code management (the
config files for a particular logical segment should belong to the
developers working on that segment, with the overall application
architects exercising control over naming conventions to avoid
conflicts).
> --
> Frank W. Zammetti
> Founder and Chief Software Architect
> Omnytex Technologies
> http://www.omnytex.com
>
Craig
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