In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-01-03 Thread Swapnil Gupta
Hello Frenz,            I have gone through quite a bit of literature and information on JSPs and Servlets. I do not find very convincing as to how JSPs score any significant advantage over Servlets. I am aware  and understand the more common points where JSP does well like easy mai

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-01-04 Thread James & Sue Ann Birchfield
rence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Swapnil GuptaSent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 1:34 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ? Hello Frenz,            I have gone through quite a bit of literature and information on JSPs and Servlets.

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-06 Thread Steve Wamsley
ginal Message - From: Swapnil Gupta To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 12:33 AMSubject: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?   Hello Frenz,   I have gone through quite a bit of literature andinformation on JSPs and Servlets. I do not find very convi

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-08 Thread Husted, Robert
OTECTED] Subject: Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 1. JSP's are really servlets when comes right down to it. 2. Do you really want to create a large-scale browser-based application composing all the HTML in out.println() c

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-08 Thread Justin Wells
Quoting Husted, Robert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > At Qwest we are using templates... HTML files with placeholders for data > ${MY_PLACEHOLDER}. We store the template in memory and then insert the data > into the template and display it to the user. The advantage is that our > HTML code doesn't a

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-08 Thread Joshua Lannin
cification and reference > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Husted, Robert > Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 12:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ? > > > At Qwest we are using templates... HTML files with > pla

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-08 Thread Starsinic Frank
One thing JSP provides that would be a benefit to you would be the Applicaton and Session Beans and the easy implementation of them. also, JSP does make some things "easier" like indicating that a JSP page should be "single-threaded" ... ... and stuff like that. Even though it's all possible in se

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-08 Thread Taylor Gautier
usted, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 11:43 AM Subject: Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ? > At Qwest we are using templates... HTML files with placeholders for data > ${MY_PLACEHOLDER}. We store the template in

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-08 Thread Richard Friedman
with everything in there but it is a goodstart.just my 2 cents.-Rich.-Original Message-From: Husted, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 2:44 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets?    At Qwest we are using templates...

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-09 Thread Justin Wells
Quoting Rod McChesney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [private reply] > > > As in, Microsoft style "we're going to spend our way to dominance". > > Jeeze, Justin, go easy! I know from the inside that Sun isn't spending > it's way to much of anything software-related. Assigning engineers to work on JSP on

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-09 Thread Justin Wells
Quoting Richard Friedman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > 1. Looping. > How have you handled looping in your template > language. Not that this is impossible, but you > probably have created your own mini-language. Also, > can you handle loops within loops? Most templates have a mini-language, but unli

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-09 Thread Justin Wells
Quoting Taylor Gautier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > JSP gives you exactly the same capabilities as a templating language, in > fact it is a templating language. It goes much further than that, however, > because it uses JavaBeans as backend data providers, meaning that any Bean > is usable by JSP, so r

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-09 Thread Taylor Gautier
- Original Message - From: Justin Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Taylor Gautier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 4:25 AM Subject: Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ? > > Quoting Taylor Gautier ([EMAIL PROTEC

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-09 Thread Justin Wells
Quoting David Geary ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi Justin, > > I've been following this thread, and I've even looked at the WebMacro Web site, but > I still have no idea what the advantages of WebMacro are over JSP. You seem to > imply that JSP has shortcomings which WebMacro addresses, but I don't und

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-09 Thread Justin Wells
Quoting Taylor Gautier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Quoting Taylor Gautier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > WebMacro is similar in that it relies on beans to supply the back end > data. > > ok...? I don't think we were talking about WebMacro, but if you want to, > sure... The thread started out being abou

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-09 Thread Kirkdorffer, Daniel
[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: Justin Wells > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 11:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ? > > Quoting David Geary ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi Justin, > > > > I'v

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-09 Thread Justin Wells
Quoting Kirkdorffer, Daniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I do not agree with many of your assertions. Well you don't have to. We live in a diverse world, and yes to a certain extent all of this is a matter of taste. > The simple fact that one can and does embed scriptlet code with a JSP page > for pre

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-10 Thread Justin Wells
Quoting Daniel Lopez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If JSP was > like WebMacro, people would be claiming now that Sun tried to enforce > their own framework to develop applications... instead they gave > developers all the freedom, and all the risks. People might say that. I think that those same people

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-10 Thread Justin Wells
Quoting root ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Interesting. Do you always read mail as root on your box? > > Quoting Daniel Lopez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > > grain of truth in all of that--but, in my opinion, a lot more truth > > in the notion that restrictions are necessary f

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-10 Thread Randy Belknap
> XML+XSL solves an important problem, and has a very big niche in > which WebMacro is not an appropriate tool. I spent a year and a half > working in the SGML division of SoftQuad Inc., back when it was one > of the largest SGML vendors (before the company got eaten from the > inside out by the H

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
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

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-10 Thread Justin Wells
Quoting Randy Belknap ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I totally believe in XML/SGML technology and have been actively using > > it for years. I make a good chunk of my living as an XML consultant. > > > > I can tell you this about it: it isn't an appropriate approach to > > take on 80% of the sites that

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-11 Thread Ray Cromwell
> Quoting root ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Interesting. Do you always read mail as root on your box? Nah, it was an accident, that's why my post never showed up on the JSP-INTEREST list. I actually read mail through my service, MsgTo.com (just for reference, 100% java: servlet/jsp, smtp, pop, imap, a

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-12 Thread Scaringi, Stephen J.
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ? ... Second of all, you keep implying that you can't do MVC with JSP which is incorrect. MVC is a *DESIGN PATTERN*, independent of implementation language. MVC exists every

Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ?

1999-11-12 Thread brian
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: In what ways does JSP score over Servlets ? > > ... > > Second of all, you keep implying that you can't do MVC with JSP > which > is incorrect. MVC is a *DESIGN PATTERN*, independent of