Hello.
First of all, I am new to this list, so if the question I am asking was
previously covered, please point me to the appropriate archive (and accept
my appologies)
I am trying to build an application that separates business logic from
presentation (i.e. I want to allow my designers to work separately from
programmers).
Most "large" systems that do that (like Locomotive), although do a good job,
require their proprietary engines - i.e. they are not fully servlet comliant
and can't run under a generic Servlet runner.
Couple systems that I looked at - WebMacro most notably - provide excellent
functionality, but, again, are not standards based (i.e. they have a
proprietary markup language).
So now I am settling on Servlet/JSP combination, where the servlet performs
all processing, then constructs a bean with data, selects a JSP pages and
uses it to render the data. (This can easily be changed to XML, for example,
by using XML/XSL parsers to process the bean, instead of the JSP engine).
My two questions are:
1) Does this look like a sound architecture choice? (Any other suggestions?)
2) How do I invoke JSP from a servlet? In JSDK2.1 there is
'RequestDispatcher.forward()', but that seems to allow the browser to access
that JSP page directly (i.e. if I can call 'forward("/foo.jsp")', the browser
can call 'http://myhost.com/foo.jsp' [ignoring the incorrect semantics of
'forward' I used] ) - which is really bad (and I do not want to get into the
game of setting the web-server to disallow access to certain pages from a
browser).
Thanx in advance for your help.
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