Hi I'm designing a multi-tier "HTML" web application that will probably use a combination of JSP,Servlet and EJB technologies. My decision to use JSP revolves around seperating the responsibilities of page design and program logic (nothing new there). I'm using EJB for it's scalability and to minimise complexity of the middle (JSP/Servlet) tier (in terms for resource pooling etc). In terms of page design, my goal is for an HTML page designer to work with a set of visual "data aware" components (Java Beans?) such as a "drop down list box", that can source their runtime data from EJBs (e.g. Customer data for a drop down list box). I'm guessing that in the short term, the drag and drop approach to page design may not be acheivable. Therefore, I'm planning to develop a set of Tag Libraries that the page designer can use to define these data aware components. At runtime, the supporting Tag Classes will source in data from an EJB and generate pure HTML output - in the example a list box containing customers. Are there any major flaws in this design/ better ways of achieving my goal ? As stated, my ultimate goal is to provide the page designer with full drag and drop components, that have a proper design time UI and that generate JSP Custom Tags within the JSP page in which they are embedded. Not knowing the "page design tool" Industry, is this the direction they are going ? Secondly, which is the better technology for receiving input data from the client (e.g. form data) ? Is it JSP or Servlet ? Many thanks (in advance) for your comments. Nick Rumble The statements and opinions expressed here are my own and may not represent those of the company. This e-mail is subject to copyright and the information in it is confidential. It is intended only for the named recipient. You are advised not to disclose the contents of this e-mail to another pers on or take copies of it. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets
