Hi!

We have a web site with multiple pages each with lot of AJAX calls. All the Ajax calls go to a data proxy layer written in Spring 3 MVC application. In order to reduce the load on the server we are planning to aggregate calls on the client and send to the proxy layer.

For ex: we have two calls /controller1/action1 and /controller2/action2 in different controllers. I want to write an aggregate controller and call it from the client instead of making two calls to the individual controllers. Something like /aggregatecontroller/aggregate (and we will post the information regarding which calls are being aggregated and required parameters).

Is there any way we can call another controller/action from a controller/action and get output?

The flow will be something like this:

a. Call /aggregatecontroller/aggregate with info regd call1 and call2

b. aggregate action understands that it needs to aggregate call1 and call2

c. it calls /controller1/action1 and gets the response

d. it calls /controller2/action2 and gets the response

e. it merges both in a json response and sends it back to browser.

Please let me know if you have any suggestion regd how to do this or if you think there is a better approach to do the server side aggregation.

Thanks for your time.