Jon,
That is an interesting read. I have a few comments.
1. You did not address the issue of web publishing tool support for
JSP and JSP taglibs.
Your argument concerning the amount of typing it takes to accomplish
the same task only has merit if someone is editing an application directly.
A web publishing tool would hide the scripting language from the user,
how wordy the scripting language is wouldn't matter then.
2. Syntax of JSP taglibs vs Velocity
JSP taglib syntax is similar to that of HTML, this syntax will be easier
for non programmers to pick up.
Velocity syntax is more like programming, great for programmers, perhaps
not so easy for web publishers to use.
3. Extending or adding new features
JSP 1.1 with taglibs allows web publishers to add new features and capabilites
to their web application by installing a tag lib that implements what they
want to do. And there are more and more taglibs every day. For example,
the new Jakarta-taglibs scrape taglib. Those taglibs can be imported into
web publishing tools for easy incorporation into a web application.
4. Velocity has its place along with other technologies such as Cocoon,
Web Macro, etc. as a tool to use for developing web applications. JSP
with taglibs also has its place. From my perspective, where we support
100's of virtual hosted sites and over a thousand web publishers (most of
whom think HTML is programming), JSP with taglibs is the best solution.
For internal applications we develop we will choose what we think is the
best tool.
Regards,
Glenn
Jon Stevens wrote:
>
> After a few weeks of working on this in my off hour not-so-spare time, I
> present, for your enjoyment and pleasure, an essay titled:
>
> You make the decision.
> <http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/ymtd/ymtd.html>
>
> Love and Kisses,
>
> -jon
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