As I see it, most dynamic page options fall into one of these categories:
1. CGI, Servlets, etc. - HTML is put in the code. Problem is that you can't
update the html without a programmer. Big problem.
2. ASP, JSP, JHTML, SSJS - Code is put in the HTML. For the most part, as
long as the html producer doesn't touch anything between <% and %>, they can
update the page without a programmer. Some HTML editors such as HomeSite,
DreamWeaver, and InterDev do an ok job of ignoring these code blocks.
3. Cold Fusion, PHP, XSSI, etc. - Code is completely seperate from HTML with
high level tags that are used for inserting database rows, calling special
libraries, etc. without using any programming or scripting. A competent
html producer should be able to design these pages and use the special tags
to add logic to the page without help from a programmer.
The holy grail of people designing template systems seems to be #3, but #2
lets you get 90% of what you need to get done and is fairly manageable
especially if the code on the page is kept light, since you can always call
code outside the page whether its in another class, bean, or whatever to do
more complicated stuff. The debate on this list is where the JSP 1.0 spec
needs to be between #2 and #3.
Ed
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> Subject: What is the so great about JSP ?!
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> I have been reading some of the emails about JSP....I don't see what is so
> great about it... What is the big advantage of putting the code in the
> template vs. the servlet class directory? If I want to seperate
> my html from
> my application, it seems there are more efficient ways than using JSP....
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> Keith
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