Justin Wells wrote:
>
> There is a lot of pressure coming from Sun that JSP should be considered
> the primary, almost only, tool for building web-pages. Evidence this
> silly notion that if you want to do MVC design you should do it within
> the context of JSP.
>
> Nobody is claiming that there is one solution that applies to
> every system, EXCEPT for the JSP people. That's why I am here and
> I am so vocal about it .
Ahhh. This is the crux of the issue. I have some sympathy for your point. By
pushing JSP as the only tool for building web-pages, Sun does discourage
excellent alternatives, like WebMacro.
> > Sun could drop the JSP spec, and release an open-source implementation.
> > But that implementation would become the defacto-standard, and yes, it
> > would be forked by vendors and users, but at the core, everyone would
> > be coding to, you guessed it, the reference implementation.
>
> That would be preferable, in my view. If they released it under a
> sensible license (as opposed to SCSL) then everyone would be willing
> to contribute to it, and we wouldn't have all these different
> competing (and possibly buggy and therefore potentially incompatible)
> implementations of JSP lying around.
Competition is bad?
But you're behind the news. Sun has already annointed its preferred
implementation under a liberal open source license.
Scott Ferguson
Caucho Technology
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