Renzo Tomaselli wrote:
less DOM to update - but the business layer is fully involved as for full-page requests. For industrial applications this is usually the most significant cost.
What makes you think so? On each full page load on my machine Firefox needs 200ms just to parse and run the common Trinidad javascript (if Firebug is to be trusted). Spending that time on the server side would allow for many, many full JSF cycles. Network latency, client side javascript execution, the usual browser limit of max. 2 request to the same domain plus many other issues limit the peformance much more. Of course if by "industrial applications" you mean those with thousands of _simultaneous_ accesses, then raw time spent on server side processing probably really becomes more important.
