i think i partly agree with that.  but basically you're saying that 
you should always optimize your response in the business layer.  
it might be a significant development time savings to avoid 
having to do most or all of that by simply caching the result 
in wicket.  


Eelco Hillenius wrote:
> 
>> you know, it occurs to me that this needs a lot more thought.
>> maybe pages are the wrong granularity for this kind of cached
>> rendering entirely.  if we put this method in MarkupContainer
>> instead, panels could participate enabling users to mix and
>> match statefulness and caching.  if you have some dynamic
>> but cacheable panel that's incredibly expensive to compute,
>> you can still nest it in a highly stateful page that's just normal
>> wicket.
> 
> If it is expensive to compute, it'll be because of the models 99% of
> the time. Which was why I made my earlier remark (in another thread)
> caching of render results wouldn't be high on my list of priorities,
> as that could/ should be done by using smart models and/ or using a
> second level cache for your database layer. When that is done,
> rendering should be a piece of cacke.
> 
> Generating static pages is great for other occasions, such as when you
> have a heavy traffic news site for instance. I think it is
> architecturally clumsy to let requests to static pages through Wicket
> whereas you could just generate them and put them on servers that are
> optimized for serving static content. Just serve them through Apache,
> and use whatever load balancing you want. Just my 2c of course.
> 
> What's interesting about JBQ's proposal as that it opens up some more
> integration options. That's nice.
> 
> Eelco
> 
> 

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