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Hi Captain,

do you have any recommendations about the maximum size of a jsp page? In general, we have small pages which often include other pages using rowpagebeaninclude. These pages load pretty fast in your layout editor (<10 s).
But now we created a large page containing around 170 elements which takes several minutes to load in the layout editor. During runtime, the pages loads fast, so no problems there, but it is really a pain to change the layout in the editor.

In general, is it better to compose a page from several other beans using the rowpagebeaninclude feature? (of course, modularity). But from a technical point of view? Or is it better to generate the component tree on server side (ComponentNode feature)?

Very basic question, but I just wanted to know if you have any recommendations.

Tobias

Hi,

in principal the ROWPAGEBEANINCLUDE is doing the same as what you do with ComponentNodes - building up a component tree. There's a bit more effort because XML of the contained page must be parsed and then the tree is built - but this is done one time only, and then the parsed page is internally kept in some "pre-compiled" format.

So: yes, you can build up scenarios as you mentino with >100 page bean includes.

Why is it taking longer in the layout editor? The only reason I can imagine is that there are some errors in preview mode which are very basic ones (very central beans have problems to be built, and then there is a try to build these beans with every expression...).

Last comment: DO NOT USE ComponentNodes anymore in general! Use ROWDYNAMICCONTENT or DYNAMICCONTENT!!! Expecially with PageBeans the self-management of expressions is very complex!!!

Regards, Björn

Thanks for your answer. And yes, we use ROWDYNAMICCONTENT, but the content nodes are build up of (sub-)types of ComponentNode. Right?

Tobias

ähmm, yes, my mistake.

I was thinking about ComponentBinding which is the ugly one! Sorry for the confusion...

You are 100% right: ComponentNode is the way to go!!!! ;-)

Regards, Björn