RE: beans and JSPs and stuff...

["Nathan M. Andelin" <nathanma@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

Your examples, a combination of HTML and class references (widgets) in a JSP
are most interesting.  They raise a few questions in my mind.

I see a lot of client-side Java Script included in web pages these days.
The script frequently references HTML components by name (i.e.
document.form.field.value).  Browser script may validate or even change HTML
component properties at runtime.  Do your widgets return HTML components
with names that are known to the JSP author at design time?  How can a
script author reference widget generated HTML?

I see a lot of parallels between class instantiation and DLL loading.  When
a JSP references a large number of widgets, how do you prevent load overhead
for each widget instantiated?

It looks like the primary purpose of widgets is to dynamically generate
client code (HTML, etc.).  Are they not, in effect mini-CGI components in
and of themselves?

Thanks in advance,

Nathan.

Since
<snip>
[HTML]
[HEAD][TITLE]My Data Table[/TITLE][/HEAD]
[BEAN name="widget" type="DataTableWidget"][/BEAN]
[BODY]
[%= widget %]
[/BODY]
[/HTML]
<end snip>


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