>I am with you on that one, Jon. I cannot figure out why people would use
>JSP when they have Servlets. I think JSP was really just to counter ASP.
In an engineer's world, the technically superior product would always win,
while marketing and customer demand would take a back seat to good
engineering. The success of Microsoft proves this isn't the case.
As Jon says:
>Servlets solve a problem effectively. JSP doesn't.
JSP solves a different kind of problem, which is the need for a tool for
people with less engineering skills to develop servlets. If JSP didn't
exist, the Java platform would not be as competitve in the market. It
may be a dirty hack, but it's a necessary hack.
Hopefully people who are drawn to the Java platform by JSP will then learn
more effective ways to build web applications using servlets, proper templating
languages, etc. If there was no JSP, those developers would go to Microsoft
instead.
JSP may not be innovative, ground breaking, or technically sublime,
but the more developers working with Java the better, IMO.
Kief
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