Re: Merlin as a container for a Swing client

Thanks a lot, Niclas.. Just thought I'll check.
Re. the verification time, I'll definitely keep that in mind..
..thanks once again..

Brgds,

R. Saravanan


On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:52:46 +0800, Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday 24 September 2004 16:33, Rajamani Saravanan wrote:
> 
> > Is there any reason at all why Merlin should NOT be used as a
> > container for a Swing application? Is it specifically targeted at
> > server side applications or can I use it for the client as well?
> 
> Nothing that I can think of.
> 
> You will probably come back with a series of questions similar to other who
> are writing Swing apps on top of Merlin. But all in all, nothing serious.
> 
> Merlin itself starts very quickly, but there is substantial overhead in the
> model verification process on start-up. That means that if you have very
> large number of components, significant start-up time will occur. You could
> possibly defer some of that into a background thread, for instance while the
> user logs in, and/or network connections to the server. I don't consider it a
> major issue, but you should keep it in mind.
> 
> Cheers
> Niclas
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