Re: Good IDE for JSP?

2000-05-28 Thread Tom Gordon
Ben Joyce wrote: Hi. what are we all using for building JSP scripts? Is there anything available similar to MS Interdev (ASP) ? Notepad's good but... I highly recommend Visual SlickEdit (http://www.slickedit.com). It's not really an IDE, but a very enhanced, customizable editor. I use it

Re: cat-walk java editor

2000-05-28 Thread Tom Gordon
hehe. One of the downsides of using a powerful text editor (I use SlickEdit) is that when my cat Brooklyn dashes across my keyboard, I have no idea what god-awful sequences she just invoked. The Unlimited Undo feature has saved me several times! -Tom Phil Campbell wrote: Thought I would

Re: Lists in a JSP

2000-05-25 Thread Tom Gordon
I much prefer to use an Enumeration in the jsp page. It's easy to understand. You don't have to implement and maintain a custom tag library, assuming you know how to do that and have the proper environment. Enumeration is a very cool interface. I feel this is one case where using a little

Model 2 servlet API version

2000-05-24 Thread Tom Gordon
I just wanted to warn people of a possible gotcha in moving to the model 2 pattern. Perhaps people can correct me if I'm wrong, also. It seems to me that the model 2 pattern doesn't really work with the servlet 2.0 API. I recently tried to implement a model 2 pattern, but had to back off. I

Re: Using EJB or JavaBeans ( MCV architecture )

2000-05-16 Thread Tom Gordon
Hi, I am also pondering whether to use EJB in conjunction with JSP and servlets. Did you ever get an answer to this question? Thanks, Tom "Bragg, James" wrote: What is the advantage of using EJB over JavaBeans (as the Model) in an web based application in which JSP will be used for

Re: Diff. between HttpSession and jsp:useBean

2000-04-26 Thread Tom Gordon
Another difference I've found useful: The HttpSession object can die unexpectedly, especially from a timeout. Many web servers/servlet engines will time a session out after, say, a half-hour. Also, the user can quit the browser. What I did was to create my own UserSession bean. I initialize

redirect slow on netscape?

2000-04-13 Thread Tom Gordon
In a jsp page, I want to redirect the user to the next page, after a form submit using POST. I am using response.sendRedirect(newURL). This works fine in Internet Explorer 5, but in Navigator 4.7.2, it takes about 20 seconds or so before the browser goes to the next page. Has anyone