Grouper Developers Forum

[Chris Hyzer <>]

> > When xml-importing, it might be nice to have
> Source.getAllSubjectsAndCache() and store Subjects in
> > memory to avoid 'many' lookups. Retrieving Subjects using a
> configurable size, e.g. getSubjects(Set
> > members, int batchsize), might also be helpful.
> 
> I think a method in a source to get all would do the trick.  

Thinking more about it, I wouldn’t want all subjects in memory (well, I don’t 
not want that), but I need them in the DB so Hibernate can do a sorted paged 
query on them and not bring back everyone...  but the same concept, 
getAllSubjects, put in DB... :)  I think we are back to the members table 
having a bit more data... at least name, description, sortField... which is 
updated periodically, and which is not the system of record.

Speaking of UIs... Im pondering making a lightweight Ajax UI which would talk 
to web services... maybe just some HTML/JS files which sit with web services. 
 Im thinking maybe jquery and dhtmlx (since both free, you can pick and 
choose which components you want to use, and I have experience with them).  
This would be a long term exercise, I don’t have any free time anytime soon, 
but just a thought.

Chris