Thanks
Shelly
malcolm davis wrote:
>
> To be more exact, JSP's are pre-compiled into a
> special servlet source (java files). The servlets
> are compiled into classes.
>
> There exist mechanism for pre-compiling the JSP to classes,
> before the first user request is received.
>
> You can find these special servlet .java files in the
> tomcat/work/ directory.
>
> There is no rendering mechanism per-say. In the end,
> the JSP/Java files write information using JspWriter
> class that subclasses from java.io.Writer.
>
> To me, a JSP is just another view of a Servlet, without
> all the ugly print statements. The reason this is important,
> is that you can do all those things that servlets can do, well sort of.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Reddin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 2:00 PM
> > Subject: RE: Struts behind the scene
> >
> >
> > Shelly,
> >
> > I'm not sure I fully understand the question, but I'll give it a shot.
> >
> > Struts does not generate anything. You write the JSP's that Struts
> > uses. When your JSP pages are invoked the first time, the web container
> > (i.e. Tomcat, etc.) compiles the JSP's and renders them. That's why it
> > is slow the first time.
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET
> > > [mailto:IMCEACCMAIL-struts-user+40jakarta+2Eapache+2Eorg+20at+
> > > 20INTERNET
> > > @alltel.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 2:27 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET
> > > Subject: Struts behind the scene
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Could somebody explain me how struts work behind the scenes. The
> > > particular case being there is template, content and the renderer.
> > >
> > > So does it create precompiled jsps or how does it work coz the very
> > > first time you render a page it's very slow
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Shelly
> > >
