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Re: woodstock ajax slow

From: Dan Labrecque <Dan.Labrecque_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:10:30 -0400

autozoom wrote:
> I am using woodstock 4.2b5 components together with many AjaxTransactions.
> It gets very slow when doing complex interactions; when profiling with
> Firebug, I see that more than 90% of the execution time on client is by the
> javascript function emptyFunction()
> Is this normal?
> Is there any general hint to optimize ajax transactions?
>

I'm not familiar with emptyFunction(), but it appears to be used by
Prototype.

> I know I should be posting this to the appropriate JSF extensions list, but
> that seems to be almost dead...
>

The JSF Extensions experts are probably a little busy with JSF 2.0 and
JavaOne, but that's still the best place to post questions about
DynamicFaces. This technology will eventually be added to JSF 2.0, so
they will want to know about your issues -- even if you only file a
performance bug.

Dan