Another possibility (which I haven't yet tried, but anyway...): make one java bean or class to work with the database, then create subclasses which extend these "pure data" functionalities (or limited non-HTML formatting) with whatever HTML formatting is appropriate. You'd simply write a new subclass if you wanted to alter the presentation, while keeping the same fundamental algorithms. -Chris Brown -----Message d'origine----- De: Dmitri Namiot [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: samedi 14 août 1999 21:34 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: Subject: RE: JSP Techniques for limiting java within the JSP (tms) you can use some XML/XSL stuff. So your beans will generate only XML things, and how to render that can be described later. Anyway from the main point of view saving long java programms in "html" pages in not a good deal. >My doubts: > 1) To avoid writing any HTML code inside java bean, > one will send results in form of Vector,Strings and > then it will be used inside JSP to present into HTML > format. This may be a complicated table too. Whether > this will have effect on performance ? Also, Since ColdJava: java server side programming http://coldjava.hypermart.net =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". For JSP FAQ, http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". For JSP FAQ, http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html