Performance tuning — a deep dive into WEF

While WEF does a great job helping developers to create portlets, developers and portal architects still need to be mindful about performance aspects of their portal solutions.

In this section dedicated to performance aspects of portlets created using WEF, we will cover topics that every developer should be aware of when using WEF as the Rapid Application Development tool for creating portlets. Some of the topics we will cover include the following:

• Performance best practices

• Addressing memory consumption

• Size of result sets

• Paging data

• Cache Control builder and caching strategy

• Log and tracing files

Before getting into the specifics of each topic, we would like to emphasize the importance of having at least one experienced WEF developer and a portal architect to implement your project. Performance is a crucial area where these experienced resources play an important role.

Performance best practices

Some schools of thought believe that developers should...