Ajax components

[Zachary Pinter <zp...@gmail.com>]

I suppose there is a lot of buzz around Ajax at the moment, and
certainly many here have already thought of its uses for tapestry.
While I can certainly see plenty of interesting form components being
developed out of this, I was wondering if there were ideas for
anything more general.

For instance, (and please correct me if I'm misunderstanding the
details of Ajax) would it be possible to create an Ajax Foreach
component? So, if you have a large list of data to output (perhaps for
a lengthy report), you can use an Ajax foreach that will send the
response in chunks (each chunk would be a single loop through the
component). That would certainly make large reports "seem" to render
faster. Plus, I could see an intelligent enough component
automatically generating all that javascript for you, making Ajax
streaming as simple as renaming an existing Foreach component.

How feasible would something like this be?

-- 
Zachary Pinter
z@absolutez.net

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