Quoting Jim Bailey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Learn JSP and that skill transfers to a dozen or more servlet
> engines/application servers. Learn WebMacro and you can design using
> WebMacro. In terms of professional development, I would rather know standard
> JSP than a little used proprietary solution like WebMacro. Not that learning
> either one is going to be particularly hard, just that JSP is going to have
> far wider applicability.
WebMacro isn't proprietary. It's free software, available with full source
code, under the GNU GPL. In awhile I will be releasing it under an
additional license on top of the GPL, to make it more accessible to
commercial users.
But it isn't proprietary. You get the source.
What you probably mean is that it is not a Sun backed standard, which
is different, and also not all that important when you're dealing with
an opensource application. Or maybe you just meant that there are
more people using JSP, which is true.
However, people here are making it sound like WebMacro is some big huge
thick book of learning. It's not. JSP may be all that--but WebMacro is
just a template engine. You write all the complex stuff in ordinary
Java code in an ordinary Java servlet. The amount of work you have
to do to create a template is *very* small, compared to the work
you do to create a JSP page.
This is mainly because all your page and control logic is there in the
JSP page, one way or another. You have to create, access, and invoke
all the right beans, etc., whereas in WM your servlet has already done
that.
So if you know regular Java, you already know 99% of what you need to
know to use WebMacro.
In this respect, I think there are more Java programmers out there than
there are JSP people, and advancing your pure Java skills with a language
like Java would be the way to go :-)
Justin
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