Re: XMLC vs. JAVA TEMPLATE METHOD

Note also that one can currently generate XMLC documents on the fly, albeit 
without helper methods for ID's.  This will likely be enhanced in XMLC 3.0 
where Dynamic proxies will be used to generate the helper methods.  At that 
point, there will be no real need for the compilation step.  Currently, if 
you perform compilation with the -for-deferred-parsing, you'll get the 
benefits of compiled XMLC pages + dynamic runtime reloading.  And when you 
do this, the compiled XMLC classes won't contain the markup keeping your 
classes as small as possible.  The markup is loaded/reloaded at 
runtime.  Also keep in mind that with XMLC compilation also comes 
compile-time checking for the document.  You can even have an interface 
which documents implement to make sure that designers included all the 
appropriate ID's in the document so you are guaranteed to catch any 
discrepencies before runtime.  Anyway, take a look at David's 
articles.  They explain a lot.

Jake

At 12:59 PM 12/18/2003 -0700, David H. Young wrote:
>Hi John,
>
>For a quick response, check out the article I wrote awhile back at:
>http://www.theserverside.com/resources/article.jsp?l=XMLCvsJSP
>
>I've also got an old slide presentation (powerpoint) you can download at
>http://www.kspar.net/xmlcIntro.ppt
>
>BTW, I had to approve your posting since this is a monitored list.  Feel 
>free to join the group at
>http://xmlc.enhydra.org/project/mailingLists/index.html
>
>Regards,
>David
>
>
>John J. Westerkamp wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>I am considering using XMLC for a large J2EE project. I currenlty create
>>HTML pages which are
>>doctored to include the XSLT commands. From this perspective, I definitely
>>see the advantage of a simple
>>HTML page without page designers having to know XSLT. What I do not like,
>>is seeing a bunch of new Java
>>classes for every HTML page in my design. I currently use a template base
>>class to do all of the XML document
>>generation using Metadata to link the XML tags to variable names in a
>>Java list object. I only have a single
>>class that is used to generate all of the documents for every HTML page.
>>Can I hear some arguments as to
>>how I can do this with XMLC and why using XMLC would be a better approach?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>John Westerkamp
>>Productivity Network Innovations, LLC
>
>
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