JSP™ and XML Integrating XML and Web Services in Your JSP™ Application

Real-World Reporting Systems

The examples found in this and the previous chapter are not adequate for production reporting systems. Why do I say this? The reason has to do with the lack of scalability contained in these JSPs. They were designed to be to the point to exemplify the stylesheet concepts that are important for reporting.

A production reporting system would have several differences. The most obvious is database connection pooling that would most likely be accessed through a JavaBean. Another difference would be the lack of SQL statements. Instead, precompiled stored procedures would be used for faster results. Also, the RStoXML.java class used to convert ResultSets to JDOM representations would be utilized through either a JavaBean ...