web application design
Hi there,
I wanted to pose a basic question as to what is a best approach when designing a web application. Case in point for a scholastic application:
1) thirty students login to their accounts and try to access the same information.
2) in doing so, they all call the same servlet which in turn calls a class named "StudentModel" and a method named getStudentList() which would return a 2D String array of data.
3) the getStudentList() method retrieves from a database the list of all the students in the school
Is it better to make the method getStudentList() a static method so that the servlet calls it directly as in:
String[][] data = StringStudentModel.getStudentList()?
Or is it better to make the method non-static, in which case, the servlet would have to make an instance of the class StudentModel thirty times?
What are your thoughts, pros vs cons?
Alan
