Geoff Soutter wrote:

> One of the main problems with JSP is it's origins: copying a
> Micro$oft product (ASP) is not necessarily the right way to start
> off! In fact, upon original release it looked to me like a somewhat
> flaky research project that had been picked up and shoved out into
> the world by the Sun marketing dept. in an effort to compete with M$!
>
> If someone at Sun had had their thinking hat on they could have made
> a much nicer version of JSP by giving up on M$ "compatibility"
> and making the following changes:
>
> - a tag library from the start, with standard tags for looping, etc
> - simple syntax for accessing variables, etc in HTML without
> resorting to overly complex XML stylee
> - NO java code allowed to be embedded in the HTML!
> - avoiding "compiling" JSP pages into class files (not necessary
> when no java code)

Well put, and I fully agree.  Oh, the JSP that could have been...

> This much was obvious to me anyway 18 months(?) ago when JSP 0.90 was
> released: I looked at it and went: "sigh". It's weighted far to much
> in favour of developers.
>
> To my mind: it should be like so:
>
> - JSP (or similar) is for HTML people
> - Servlets / Beans are for Java developers

> Actually, looking back perhaps I ought to have constructed a
> similar article and posted it way back at 0.90 stage but then
> I don't have the "brand recoginition" of JH! :-)
>
> Anyway, "big ups" to JH for the article to get people talking!

Thanks.  What fun is recognition if you can't stir the pot?  :-)

-jh-

P.S.  Cross posting to jsp-interest.

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