Re: plan for jsp foo

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:25 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Jonathan and I were talking about the slowness of the XML-RPC interface
> for the initial "GET" for a client, where you need to do lots of
> roundtrips to get content for various objects.
> 
> One really clever thing we could do is for the initial "GET", on the
> server, generate the Javascript and HTML code such that its state is
> already initalized; for example, the generated JavaScript object Comment
> would have its old_version variable already initalized.
> 
> The neat way to do this I think would be to have custom JSP tags which
> map to our various Java classes, and which then generate the
> corresponding JavaScript classes.

This sounds like a pretty schweet idea.

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