Right. JSP was designed (sometimes with quite a bit of effort) to allow
different scripting languages. So far the only scripting language that
has been standarized is "java", but SQLJ, and WebMacro (if desired - no
smiley here!) can be handled. In particular, the design of the
implementation of custom tags had as a requirement to be usable
regardless of the scripting language used in the JSP page.
Another direction is to use custom tags to introduce the non-java
scripting language. This seems doable with some constraints on the
language structures used in the custom tag, and an assumption that the
non-java scripting language is intrepreted. I know of one person who is
(said he was) looking into this right now. The one area that I think
needs improvement is the "quoting" properties of the custom tag. One
nice thing of <% %> is that you can use a plain old "<" instead of
<. Going the custom-tag route does not give you that but this
*could* be addressed in a future extension to the spec. [[Of course,
the hard part of specs is deciding what to leave out]]
Hope this helps,
- eduard/o
> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:12:24 -0500
> From: "Bail . Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: access to ORACLE from JSP
>
> > SQLJ requires preprocessing, so you wouldn't be able to use
> > it in a JSP page
> > unless you tampered with the JSP implementation.
>
> With JSP 1.1 you can actually use SQL as your scripting language which is
> along the same lines as SQLJ. I just saw an example of this during an Oracle
> presentation at Sun Technology Days. I'll post a URL if I can find one.
>
>
> Jeff
>
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