FYI - HomeSite is an Allaire product.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Vowles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 5:29 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: JSP FAQ take 1
>
>
> Java Server Pages FAQ
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> (tm owned by Sun?)
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> Maintainer: Richard Vowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.esperanto.org.nz)
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> Table of Contents
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>
> 1) What is JSP?
> 2) What version is the current version of JSP?
> 3) Where can I get the specification for JSP?
> 4) Who supports JSP?
> 5) What books are available for JSP?
> 6) Is JSP better than ASP (Microsoft's Active Server Pages)?
> 7) What HTML editors support JSP?
>
> Other topics + descriptions & additions gladly accepted.
>
> FAQ Contents
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>
> 1) What is JSP?
>
> JSP is a dynamic scripting capability for web pages that
> allows Java as
> well as a few
> special tags to be embedded into a web file (HTML/XML, etc).
> The suffix
> traditionally ends
> with .jsp to indicate to the web server that the file is a JSP file.
>
> JSP files actually get compiled into Servlets, so what is the
> point? Why
> not just write
> Servlets?
>
> For most people, the benefit is twofold:
>
> - the focus is on HTML. Java and the JSP extensions assist in making
> the HTML more
> functional. Servlets on the other hand allow outputting
> of HTML but
> it is a tedious
> process.
> - it is easy to make a change and then let the JSP capability of the
> Web Server you are
> using deal with compiling it into a Servlet and running it.
>
> 2) What version is the current version of JSP?
> 0.92 is the current version of JSP and has been for some time. Sun are
> really, really,
> really slow at bringing out the 1.0 spec for JSP and this is causing a
> lot of flak as many
> believe that they are trying to add too much functionality.
> 0.91 is a popular version though, and much software that supports the
> JSP pre-standard
> actually supports 0.91 of JSP.
>
> 3) Where can I get the specification for JSP?
>
> The specification for JSP comes as part of the reference
> implementation
> for JSP. The JSP
> home page from Sun is located at http://java.sun.com/products/jsp.
>
> 4) Who supports JSP?
>
> There are the following implementations available:
>
> (Name of Product, Version supported, where to get it from, cost?)
>
> - JSP Reference Implementation, 0.92,
> http://java.sun.com/products/jsp,
> free
> - GNUJSP, 0.91, http://www.xs4all.nl/~vincentp/gnujsp/, free
> - PolyJsp, 0.92, http://www.plenix.org/polyjsp, free + open source
> - WebSphere Application Server, 0.91, http://www.ibm.com, ???
>
> (lots of others???)
>
> 5) What books are available for JSP?
>
> Most book vendors appear to be waiting for the 1.0 version of the
> specification to be
> released before committing to any books. This tends to give
> ammo to the
> ASP camp who point
> to the dearth of good books on JSP (this may in fact just be a
> condemnation of ASP for
> needing so many... :-)
>
> That said, there was some momentum for a group of people to
> write a web
> book on JSP - who
> that/those people were I missed - can someone please email me details?
> Is it still alive?
> Can people contribute?
>
> 6) Is JSP better than ASP (Microsoft's Active Server Pages)?
>
> This is a matter of great debate. Many punters think that JavaSoft has
> the benefit of
> hindsight - what works well and what does't. ASP is very complex but
> supports multiple
> scripting languages and the ActiveX model of Microsoft. Although ASP
> _is_ available on many
> platforms, the ActiveX library support that makes it as powerful as it
> is is missing and
> thus makes ActiveX only feasible for an NT platform.
> According to recent statistics (see the RedHat site), 22% of
> web servers
> are NT, (21% are
> Linux), that means there is 78% needing something else, and JSP
> advocates believe that JSP
> fits the bill nicely that you very much.
>
> 7) What HTML editors support JSP?
>
> Most of the visual developers do not support JSP in any way, shape or
> form, they mess up the
> tags totally. The following HTML editors have been known to work with
> JSP:
>
> - HomeSite (? where to get this from ?)
> - Windows Notepad
> - VI
>
>
> --
> Richard Vowles, Senior Systems Engineer,
> Inprise New Zealand, MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> HTTP: The Esperanto Group, www.esperanto.org.nz
> [my messages contain my own opinions, not those of my employer]
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