Jack Ratcliff described a technique that makes it possible to generate the XML for an Ajax operation without invoking an agent. You create a page that includes static XML tags and uses Computed Text objects that execute @function code. Your Ajax code then opens the page via a URL. This technique has several benefits:

• Notes developers can maintain the XML structure outside of LotusScript or Java code
• Opening a page or form is much less taxing on the server than invoking an agent

Personally, I've presented on using pages and forms to generate XML, but hadn't thought of using this in the context of AJAX. Kudos to Jack for bringing this to my attention. When I get back to the office, I'll be changing an application I'm developing so that it will use pages instead of agents.

My only recommendation would be to cut the "history of @formula" slides, as well as the slides that discuss various AJAX libraries. Jack ran out of time, mostly due to the earlier filler slides. Great presentation, though!

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