Forward:
I truely believe that JSP and Beans are central in dynamic content creation.
They
are crutial to the development of the next wave of internet applications. SUN
must
continue to invest in this truely object oriented technology. I have written
several
web application frameworks myself, and see the grace and utility of JSP. JSP
seperates
interface creation from the application logic while incorperating session and
application management. JSP allows designers to design and engineers to
engineer.
I am dedicated to its success.
Problem:
JSP is becoming too complex.
The current vision as discussed emphasizes "model 2". Servlets talk
to the
application instantiate beans and forward requests which contain
session
information and request information. This will scare many away and
limit
the usability of object oriented graphic tools for automatic page
creation.
Suggestion:
Increase the awareness of JSP Aware Beans. Make Beans a central
concept
in the design of JSP.
Method:
Add execution cycle specification and additional bean environment
passing
to JSP1.0
a) through introspection call setSession, setServletContext,
setRequest, setResponse to bean execution cycle.
b) add set-each-request parameter (called "set") model to
JSP1.0 (as apposed to setoncreate or setfromrequest)
c) implement and add to spec an execution cycle as follows
1. setoncreate called (during initial creation only)
2. setSession, setServletContext, setRequest,
setResponse are called
3. set (described in "b" above) called
4. setfromrequest called
5. processRequest called (work of page done here)
6. getXXX called by JSP
d) elminate attempt at an additional programming language as seen in
0.92
Use scriptlets. Do not overcomplicate the interface use JAVA
and
scriptlets instead of creating a tangent language.
1. remove "LOOP" use <%for(xxxx){%> html <%}%>
2. remove "property" concept in favor of <%=beanname.getXXXX%>
e) GET ON THE BEAN BANDWAGON!!!! ditch crowbars and make beans central
to the server function. Anything short of this will kill JSP
(imho)
That's about as much time as I have right now. If there is any interest in my opinion
I will comment on my other concerns (such as application, session, and request
function)
Hope I helped.
-jason
Jason Bright
Pres., BrighTech Inc.
212 3rd Ave N #435
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 317-0737
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