On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 16:25, Jules Gosnell wrote: > I haven't tried it, but if you have a Jasper that implements JSP2.0, try > replacing the jasper jars in jbossweb.sar with it and see if it works... > > If not, they have changed the external API and we may have to make > adjustments. I don't see why they should need to do this, Jasper is just > another servlet that should run in any compliant servlet-container, > which Jetty is.
If this is true then that is excellent news. Too be honest I am more interested in JSP 2.0 support in Jetty than in Tomcat as I switched to Jetty some time ago. :-) But I knew that Jetty used Jasper, but I wasn't aware that the integration was (theoretically) so simple. > Try it and come back to the list with your findings, Alas someone else will probably beat me to it. It will be some time before I get to this part of my refactoring. Hence my original question, I was just wondering how long it would be, it sounds from your comments that JSP 2.0 will be ready a while before I am. But if I do end up working on it first, you can be sure that I'll post my findings here and I'll help in any way I can. > What have they got in JSP2.0 that is exciting ? I haven't yet had time > to look at the spec. There are quite a few things that are new in JSP that I have been getting quite excited about. I have never previously been a fan of JSP because in my mind it did not sufficiently separate the presentation and business logic layers. Custom tags were a step to solve this, but it was too "hard" of a solution whereby all the logic had to be set up in java classes. However, JSP has introduced a new server side scripting language called "EL" which seems to me to be exactly what was needed. This is a welcome addition if like me you have never been keen on the idea of having java code embedded in templates. You can create pure XML pages in JSP now, and switch off any embedded Java, instead opting for the lighter weight EL scripting language. You can then add your presentation layer using servlet filters doing XSLT transformations for example. If you use such a methodology, it forces you to put all of your meaty code in Java classes where it belongs, but still gives you the freedom to do scripting in the template. You can also create custom tags in pure EL. The strange thing for me is that I have been mentally designing a new XML based web-framework that would use JPython as a scripting language. After reading the JSP 2.0 spec. however, I realised that I can now achieve the same design goals using the new features of JSP. The only area which I think is still a little weak is that in the servlet API, filters can only be configured at deploy time. I would like to be able to pick different output "filters" at runtime. This should be relatively easy to work around however. -- Peter Beck BEng (hons) - Managing Director, Electrostrata Ltd. http://www.electrostrata.com --+-+-- Experts in e-business and e-commerce ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. Get a guide here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
