Richard,
Well done! So glad to see you took on the task.
It is exciting to see the JSP world grow.
BTW, the book initiative is still underway. I'll let Aaron Gomez provide
you with details.
Dan
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Daniel Kirkdorffer
Sr. Consultant, Syllogistics LLC
Web: http://www.syllogistics.com/
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> From: Richard Vowles[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: Richard Vowles
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 2:29 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: JSP FAQ take 1
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> 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,
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