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

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 gen

RE: [OT] JSP Clutter

2005-08-08 Thread Johnson, Kaerstin
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.. >* By "encompassing', I mean no formatting is used directly in the JSP where >it can be deferred to a style. -Ori

Re: [OT] JSP Clutter

2005-08-08 Thread Christopher Marsh-Bourdon
I mean where you can specify how a tag is rendered (within your browser) totally using CSS rules, rather than specifying messy and deprecated tags such as . I also exclude using inline CSS styles such as when it could declared as and let a CSS define it's behavior. Inline CSS doesn't re

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 >

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
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 will generate the HTML/JSP, with Struts it has to be written and maintained. Now I haven't spent that much time with either

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.

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 m

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 generat

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

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 HT