On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Borislav Iordanov wrote: > In short, at least in my experience, this presentation only layer > where data is only formatted to look nice is a myth. Or where it is > not a myth, the high decoupling is somewhat artificial and creates an > unnecessary complexity at least as difficult to maintain as the > mixture of programming and presentation constructs in a single file.
In general, you might be right that such a methodology isn't as common as some people claim it is, but it's much more than a myth. At Yale, we developed a relatively large web application (for "network registration," used routinely by about 10000 users to register and update DHCP entries and other similar information) using this methodology and proto-JSTL concepts. Specifically, the Manager of Student Computing -- a nonprogrammer with enough technical understanding to work with HTML and <form> elements in particular -- designed the presentation and user interface with minimal day-to-day help from me, whereas I played the role of the back-end programmer providing business logic and JSTL-like tag libraries. -- Shawn Bayern "JSTL in Action" http://www.jstlbook.com (coming in July 2002 from Manning Publications) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
