[Seaside] Re: Component granularity & numbers

[Yanni Chiu]

itsme213 wrote:
> Is it reasonable to have one component for every appearance of any domain 
> model object on the page (could be hundreds, many of them being presented 
> just as very summarized names without their details) plus one component for 
> every control (menu etc.)?

It depends on your model. If "domain model object" means an application 
UI model that interacts with an underlying business model, then the 
answer is yes. If the model objects are the underlying business objects 
themselves, then the answer is maybe. It'll work well if your UI is 
mostly CRUD-like (i.e. create/retrieve/update/delete). The approach will 
start to break down when the underlying business objects have more 
specialized behaviour. You'll know you've reached the tipping point when 
you have to keep extending your generic framework code to accomodate 
your business model. Hope that helps.

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Yanni Chiu