Leveraging the WebRowSet Object to Deliver Web Content: An Architectural Study of Producing HTML From WebRowSet Objects Using Client-And Server-Centric Approaches

Overview

The WebRowSet interface was introduced in the Java language in Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) Version 1.4. With J2SE Version 5.0, reference implementation classes of the interfaces ship with the run time. WebRowSet objects can easily be transformed into XML documents. In this paper, one uses a client-centric approach in which the client's browser is responsible for rendering the XML of a WebRowSet object into HTML for presentation. But if one is not sure whether or not the audiences uses an older browser, one will want to understand the server-centric approach, where HTML is produced on the application server from a WebRowSet object's XML. By juxtaposing the client-centric and server-centric architectures, one will get a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of each.