Re: MVC Approach

One observation is that there is quite a lot of system overhead when using XML 
parsing in general, including web services.

Kristen

Larry wrote:

> Struts seems to be one of the best ways to incorporate the MVC pattern into 
> one's web application design.  I have some struts applications running on our 
> public sites.
>
> But with all the Web Services buzz going on, might another paradigm for an 
> MVC-like approach be to design all of your interactive access as web services 
> (Axis, whatever) and then use a presentation layer like JSP to present you 
> dynamic content on pretty web pages, perhaps with some XSL translation going 
> on.
>
> Then, sophisticated end users (customers) could access your dynamic content 
> directly by interfacing to the web service directly using the WSDL 
> specification.  Or they can still access data by a browser.  Either way, all 
> output is coming from one source.
>
> Any comments?  I am just ruminating this stuff over in my head and would 
> appreciate any thoughts.
>
> Larry