[WDSCI-L] Re: Installing a web change (was: importing a rpg orsqlrpg)

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Mark Phippard
>
> If your code is stable, then a one-time step to JAR it up is hardly a
> heartache.

How often is code ENTIRELY stable, Mark?  Be realistic.  If you're in any
sort of living, breathing shop, functionality is added or changed every day.
The only place code is stable is in a CS101 class.  Or maybe an old S/36
shop <grin>.


> Personally, I do not believe that JAR files speed the JIT or
> class loading process all that much

Well, you disagree with every text on JIT compilers that I've read,
including the white papers from IBM.  Who should I believe?  The guys that
write the compilers or you?


> especially for web applications where you have a
> lot of small loosley related classes.
>  It certainly helps for things like
> JT400 or Struts where a large chunk of related code can all get loaded at
> once.  But I think for some general servlet code the difference is likely
> negligible.  The problem with WebFacing is the sheer volume of
> classes and JSP's that have to be loaded.

Why does a web application need a lot of small loosely related classes?  My
architecture doesn't.  My architecture never adds new classes, with the
exception of the JSPs.  This seems a much more rational approach to web
design.

Joe