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Thanks to both of you experts! &nbsp;I will take your counsel. &nbsp;I have always heard since the beginning of the Web era, do it on the server!
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Thanks to both of you experts!  I will take your counsel.  I have always heard since the beginning of the Web era, do it on the server!

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Very good help! &nbsp;I'm glad there are folks like you on EE!
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Very good help!  I'm glad there are folks like you on EE!

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Thanks for the points and for your kind words! ~Ray
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Thanks for the points and for your kind words! ~Ray

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I would like to add up the values in rows coming back from a database in a result set so that I get subtotals and totals in a JSP using Javascript. &nbsp;Say there were 200 hundred rows with 3 columns needing subtotals and totals, would performance be faster on the client using Javascirpt or would it be faster and more efficient to sum up the values on the server, like Websphere for instance?
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I would like to add up the values in rows coming back from a database in a result set so that I get subtotals and totals in a JSP using Javascript.  Say there were 200 hundred rows with 3 columns needing subtotals and totals, would performance be faster on the client using Javascirpt or would it be faster and more efficient to sum up the values on the server, like Websphere for instance?

Client-side JavaScript vs. Server-side Java - Performance

A scripting language is a programming language that supports scripts, programs written for a special run-time environment that automate the execution of tasks that could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator. Scripting languages are often interpreted (rather than compiled). Primitives are usually the elementary tasks or API calls, and the language allows them to be combined into more complex programs. Environments that can be automated through scripting include software applications, web pages within a web browser, the shells of operating systems (OS), embedded systems, as well as numerous games. A scripting language can be viewed as a domain-specific language for a particular environment; in the case of scripting an application, this is also known as an extension language.

Scripting Languages

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Web Servers

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