Re: [FormProc-developer] Caching of scripts. (now GroovyValidator)

[Anthony E. <me...@an...>]

I've got a deadline of December 1st for my job but once that's done I'll 
test out the code and put it in the CVS.

Sincerely,
Anthony Eden

Barrie Selack wrote:
> Anthony,
> 
> Thanks for the response. My main problem was that I decided to use Groovy
> as a scripting language. Although BeanShell supports it, it was painfully
> slow (over 1.2 seconds per field on the page) I thought at first it may
> be a caching problem, but it was just the instantiation of BeanShell that
> was the issue. So I wrote a GroovyValidator that compiles and caches the
> class for reuse. It also allows you to specify an update-interval for
> checking to see if the script has changed. The time has dropped from 1.2
> seconds to 10ms or less per field. Big difference.
> 
> I'm attaching it for consideration of inclusion into FormProc. It's set
> up just like a regular script in formproc.xml except for the uodate-interval.

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