Arun,
We currently use ASP for a good-sized production intranet and are
experimenting with JSP, in both cases using nothing more complicated than a
text editor. That said, all parties involved are programmers of one kind or
another ('tho nobody has Java experience and a year ago nobody had ASP or
HTML experience). Personally I like hand-coding. It may be slower than a
gui tool, but on the other hand it eliminates one more learning curve and
one more layer of potential errors *and* it gives a feel for what's really
going on "under the covers". No doubt if we tackle a big from-scratch java
app we'll move to a gui frontend.
George Phillips
Information Technology - University of Miami
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (305)284-5143
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arun Katkere [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 1:06 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: JSP Authoring Tools
>
> 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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