Does FPM give AJAX capability?

[Former Member]

Does implementing FPM give any AJAX capability to UI or any technique so that one need not refresh full page after a server round trip?

Thanks & Regards,

Reena

[thomas_jung]

With or without FPM, core WDA as of 7.01 has quite a few AJAX capabilties. All the Java Script libraries are loaded on demand via AJAX. Also the page construction and delta rendering is all done via AJAX. If you turn on delta handling (standard on as of 7.02) then each view is delta calculated and loaded via AJAX. This can have a nice performance benefit in FPM because of course each UIBB is at least in a separate view (since of course they are in a separate component).

[ChrisPaine]

No more than if you had implemented the UIBBs as separate components embedded into multiple view containers in your WDA app.

And that shouldn't be a suprise - as that is what the FPM does! it dynamically embeds the UIBBs into view containers - and provides a very nice event handling loop, standard layout, etc.

It doesn't do anything special with the WDA rendering model. That said WDA is getting closer and closer to AJAX - but just using the FPM won't do anything special to help you get there.

Please still do use the FPM though - even if it isn't a magic solution to speed rendering - it is a excellent design and reuse pattern!