Re: Architecture question for all you gurus out there

2006-03-09 Thread Bruno Georges
site. Hope this helps. Bruno Georges Glencore International AG Tel. +41 41 709 3204 Fax +41 41 709 3000 - Original Message - From: "John MccLain" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09.03.2006 22:11 To: "Tomcat user list" Subject: Architecture question for all you gurus out the

Re: Architecture question for all you gurus out there

2006-03-09 Thread Greg Bobak
You should consider looking at AJAX for this type of processing. With AJAX you can store rules and processes in the user session object. Changes can be made to happen without refreshing the whole page. It eliminates a lot of request/response processing. Also consider fragment caching your

Re: Architecture question for all you gurus out there

2006-03-09 Thread Alex Jalali
ItÂ’s always better to not have fat clients and put as much of the logic on the server side. You say that this is a webapp client? So that means that your forms are static. So your only choice is to use script language that runs on client machine. This is also a bad thing. Since you don't know much

Re: Architecture question for all you gurus out there

2006-03-09 Thread andy gordon
Have you looked into aspect oriented programming? You should be able accomplish your objectives using it. One example open source effort is the Spring framework. Good luck. - andy John MccLain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We have a fairly large client/server app that we converted to a java

Architecture question for all you gurus out there

2006-03-09 Thread John MccLain
We have a fairly large client/server app that we converted to a java webapp. The original app was in powerbuilder. there were 2 types of rules applied to field rendering: 1) any rule that could be handled when the screen loaded was handled via screen level events, e.g., if a screen had fields with