Hi Lachlan, you have some good ideas. 1) Scan all java WOComponent files at application launch and make a list of needed resources: This is cool. The one drawback is that every page you go to would have lots of JS and CSS files in the head tag, even if there is no possibility of using a given file on that particular page. It's not so bad though because those resources between the head tags get cached and will be used sooner or later anyway if the user continues for any meaningful length of time. I'm not sure how to immediately go about scanning all the java files, have you implemented anything like that before? I think in the meantime I'm going to use an approach similar to this but instead of scanning all the java sources I'm just going to make "appendResourceInHead()" a static method on all the subComponents and just manually call all these from the pageWrapper.
2) Augmenting the UserInfo dictionary of WOResponse: Unfortunately this won't work because not all the needed elements would be questioned to give their input to the augmented UserInfo dictionary. 3) Dynamically load javascript or modify the DOM: This probably can work. Mike Schrag has also alluded to this in the past as a possible solution. Ideally you could modify the contents between the "head" tags in the DOM and hopefully most browsers would understand that you inserted a JS or CSS reference and load them on the fly, possibly even utilizing the local browser cache. But this would have to be tested and might not work on a "Opera" for example. Another angle would be to always check for the existence of a function or javascript object before blindly using it. If it is not defined, then you could make an Ajax call and download the needed file on the fly, possibly using "evaluate" to load the needed functionality. This would not make use of the cache but would only happen at most once per page. While this is all perhaps possible, it would take a bit of experimentation and may not be totally cross browser compatible. -- Aaron
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