hi Brad,
I had the same confusion , the best approach is:
Assume that your web app could have a lot of interfaces
The Web Interface is th most obvious thing..
Lets say it could also have a WAP interface... and so on..
Anyway the point I want to drive home is that the Data is the same , but the
GUI in a WAP and a Browser is entirely different...
Hence we would have to find a mechanism to differentiate the Model from the
View.
And this is done using a Controller..(could be a servlet, or could be a EJ
bean ..which say returns results and the respective JSPs render HTML...)
but from a programmers point of view..utlimately even a JSP is converted in
to a servlet and hence one might argue that ,why not do some processing in
the JSPs too..
But what if the interface changes ??? you might have to touch all the code
you had already written (in JSP)?
Is it worth ? just because the GIU changed ?
Hope this gives you some pointers...
Cheers,
Nagraj
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I am confused as to the best approach to:
use servlets for generating data and flow and use jsp for presentation only.
What is the advantage of using a servlet to generate data compared with
using a jsp to generate data and then forwarding that information to another
jsp which displays the results?
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