JSP is delectable and us folks in development love it to death (not quite,
but lets go with that premise). But, and this is a big but, the folks in Web
services want authoring tools and server support.
On the server support front we are OK, though it would have been more
convincing if servers like iPlanet supported JSP 1.0+ out of the box
(Netscape: when?). JSP 1.1 support would be even better because of the tag
extension mechanism.
But the big roadblock is tool support. Drumbeat has a JSP version but only
supports IBM WebSphere/DB2 (and it is only JSP 0.92??). Don't know of any
other popular tool that supports it today. Couple of questions for the nice
folks on this list:
1. How important is JSP support in tools? Is there any way we can code JSP
by hand (hiding most work behind beans and custom tags) and use those tools
for the cosmetic portion? Keep in mind we are talking about people who list
HTML as a skill and have no Java experience (sorry, couldn't resist :) ).
2. What is the extent of JSP support in Web authoring tools? Is anyone else
shipping? Have anyone else announced support and plan to ship soon?
Any suggestions/pointers will be appreciated? We don't want to see JSP die
here.
-arun
ps: I apologize for wasting valuable bandwidth on these questions, but I
have looked at the obvious places for answers and not found it.
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