> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael McGrady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 1:38 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Servlet help for a Struts programmer > > > At 01:27 PM 8/10/2004, you wrote: > >The OP has an existing application > >that doesn't use Struts. > > Oh, I see what you mean, Wendy. I assume that the "OP", > whatever that is > (client?), does not have a Servlet application that fails to > use standard > decoupling techniques, and even if it did, he would want to > change that. I > certainly do not mean to demean anyone by stating that a web > application > with nothing but Servlet classes would be nuts. I cannot
It is nuts. It's one of the big reasons why the Java world is so gung ho on seperation of concerns, in my never to be humble opinion. At the time, servlets were a huge step forward from CGI/perl applications. People were writing huge apps in them... and suffering the very pitfalls that moden practices seek to avoid. MVC did not show up until relatively late, when JSP's came out, because in the beginning, there were no JSP's. Take a look at the JSP spec version number vs. the Servlet spec version number. JSP's are basically inverted servlets, and were created because of the amount of pain involved in spitting out what was bascially boilerplate html. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
