In the Backbase framework package, you can find a special utility program, the TDL Optimizer. Look in the tools
folder to find a tdlOptimizer
subfolder. A detailed documentation is also located there. Here, we give a practical overview.
What does the TDL Optimizer do and why would you want to use such a utility?
A problem with JavaScript frameworks and libraries like the Backbase framework is that the JavaScript code must be loaded each time a new page is loaded into the browser. The libraries consist of many large files and not only the size of the files, but more than that, the number of files may make the initial loading of a page slow.
One way of limiting the number of files that are loaded is by loading files only on demand. While this helps, you will see when you use the Firebug tool in the Firefox browser that still a large number of files are loaded.
What you can do to bring the number of files down, is to combine the files that are needed for an application into larger...