[SHALE]: using Shale's Tapestry-like views (was [OT] JSP Clutter)

2005-08-09 Thread Lindholm, Greg
the pages and flow etc before any of the application is ready. Where can I find more info on this? -Original Message- From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 7:18 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] JSP Clutter From: Michael Jouravlev

Re: [SHALE]: using Shale's Tapestry-like views (was [OT] JSP Clutter)

2005-08-09 Thread Gary VanMatre
- From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 7:18 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] JSP Clutter From: Michael Jouravlev [EMAIL PROTECTED] With Tapestry you create HTML template for each page, then stick data into it, using jwcid attribute. Your

[OT] JSP Clutter

2005-08-08 Thread Christopher Marsh-Bourdon
Apologies if this it _too_ off-topic, but I think it might be worth mentioning. In the same vein as my web framework is better than yours we, in the office, have been having a fairly heated discussion about which way we go technology wise next. Over the past six months we have been

Re: [OT] JSP Clutter

2005-08-08 Thread Leon Rosenberg
JSP/HTML/XHTML is a messy mark-up. It is cumbersome to refactor and a bugger to work out. We could use Tapestry or JSF and forget about HTML. That's right, but as long as you deliver html to the customer, you have to deal with it, regardless of your technology. At the end of the day,

Re: [OT] JSP Clutter

2005-08-08 Thread Christopher Marsh-Bourdon
The anti-Struts/MVC argument, and it isn't mine, is that whereas Tapestry and JSF will generate the HTML/JSP, with Struts it has to be written and maintained. Now I haven't spent that much time with either Tapestry or JSF, but from what little I have read; it would appear that they can

RE: [OT] JSP Clutter

2005-08-08 Thread Johnson, Kaerstin
. -Original Message- From: Christopher Marsh-Bourdon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 4:41 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: [OT] JSP Clutter Apologies if this it _too_ off-topic, but I think it might be worth mentioning. In the same vein as my web framework is better

Re: [OT] JSP Clutter

2005-08-08 Thread Christopher Marsh-Bourdon
. -Original Message- From: Christopher Marsh-Bourdon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 4:41 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: [OT] JSP Clutter Apologies if this it _too_ off-topic, but I think it might be worth mentioning. In the same vein as my web framework

Re: [OT] JSP Clutter

2005-08-08 Thread Leon Rosenberg
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Christopher Marsh-Bourdon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 8. August 2005 23:05 An: Struts Users Mailing List Betreff: Re: [OT] JSP Clutter The anti-Struts/MVC argument, and it isn't mine, is that whereas Tapestry and JSF

Re: [OT] JSP Clutter

2005-08-08 Thread Dave Newton
Christopher Marsh-Bourdon wrote: The anti-Struts/MVC argument, and it isn't mine, is that whereas Tapestry and JSF will generate the HTML/JSP, with Struts it has to be written and maintained. Now I haven't spent that much time with either Tapestry or JSF, but from what little I have read;

Re: [OT] JSP Clutter

2005-08-08 Thread Christopher Marsh-Bourdon
2005 23:05 An: Struts Users Mailing List Betreff: Re: [OT] JSP Clutter The anti-Struts/MVC argument, and it isn't mine, is that whereas Tapestry and JSF will generate the HTML/JSP, with Struts it has to be written and maintained. Now I haven't spent that much time with either Tapestry or JSF

Re: [OT] JSP Clutter

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 8/8/05, Christopher Marsh-Bourdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the past six months we have been migrating our front-ends from .net to Java based technologies, and Struts in the main. Now a new manager has come on board and he wishes us to revisit the reasons why we choose Struts. Now I

Re: [OT] JSP Clutter

2005-08-08 Thread Christopher Marsh-Bourdon
Sorry, the point was not to compare .net/JSF/Tapestry against Struts, but to highlight that a bit fore thought into developing a good CSS at the start of the project would have reduced the amount of markup we have had to write in the last six months. It certainly makes our life easier to

Re: [OT] JSP Clutter

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Jouravlev
www.csszengarden.com www.alistapart.com On 8/8/05, Johnson, Kaerstin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not understanding what you mean by this (encompassing* CSS), or perhaps I am not familiar with some technique, can you elaborate or provide an example? I am intrigued..

Re: [OT] JSP Clutter

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Jouravlev
With Tapestry you create HTML template for each page, then stick data into it, using jwcid attribute. Your webdesigner is happy. With JSF you compose page using JSF tags either manually or using visual IDE, and then JSP/JSF engine will generate HTML in the runtime (I don't know how HTML is

Re: [OT] JSP Clutter

2005-08-08 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 8/8/05, Michael Jouravlev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/8/05, Christopher Marsh-Bourdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the past six months we have been migrating our front-ends from .net to Java based technologies, and Struts in the main. Now a new manager has come on board and he

Re: [OT] JSP Clutter

2005-08-08 Thread Wendy Smoak
From: Michael Jouravlev [EMAIL PROTECTED] With Tapestry you create HTML template for each page, then stick data into it, using jwcid attribute. Your webdesigner is happy. With JSF you compose page using JSF tags either manually or using visual IDE, and then JSP/JSF engine will generate HTML