If I might interject here a moment and clarify my thoughts... but the JSP
code runs on the server doesn't it? Either I'm misinterpreting how JSP
runs, but the client horsepower has no effect at all on JSP, because from
my understanding the JSP runs on the server and all that's served up to
the client is a basic html page. As for loading and interpreting
Javascript I don't think there's much overhead involved in that at all
from my experience. I've developed a few applications here that run
purely using java and jsp, with javascript for various items such as
hiding/unhiding div statements when a button is clicked, but from my
school of thought, all validation should be done on the server. Then it
comes down to how well you organize your dao's, servlets, and processing
to get subsecond response times. My first application was somewhat
cumbersome, but it was my first and it works fairly well. I learned from
that app, that I needed to create object models to hold my values, dao's
to access my data backened, and servlets to control the interaction. So
in reality, an application that runs in subsecond time on a PIV should run
the same time on a PIII or less. So long as it meets the requirements for
the web browser it is running.
Ron Power
Programmer
Information Services
City Of St. John's, NL
P.O. Box 908
St. John's, NL
A1C 5M2
709-576-8132
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http://www.stjohns.ca/
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