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Load List Values for Improved Efficiency

Posted by Hemos on from the leaner-and-meaner dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Reduce the number of database hits and improve your Web application's efficiency when you load common shared list values only once. In this code-filled article, learn to load the values for drop-down lists when your Web application starts and then to share these loaded list values among all the users of your application."

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  1. Oblig. Simpsons Quote by bigtallmofo · · Score: 4, Funny

    "And people, I can't stress this enough. Put your garbage in the garbage can."

    "Garbage in the garbage can. Hmm. Makes sense."

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    I'm a big tall mofo.
  2. April Fools... by Kr3m3Puff · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is this April First?

    Wow, next an article about using "for" loops? The benefits of "bubble sort"? "Binary trees"?

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    D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M.
  3. And for the follow-up article... by azuroff · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...this "Lead Developer" at IBM will discover the wonderful performance benefits of pooling database connections, rather than open a new connection every single fricking time he hits the database. No wonder he saw a massive performance increase when he learned how to cache the lookup values.

    And what's up with the "obj_" prefixes in some of the code listings? Newsflash: Java is an object-oriented programming language, and most competent Java programmers can figure out that a variable called resultSet probably isn't a primitive. You don't need to waste another 4 characters pointing out that fact.

  4. Re:Not that bad a hint. by ergo98 · · Score: 4, Funny
    • It's a


    Looks like you had an SQL Statement timeout there.