BTW: might I point out that webwork (http://www.opensymphony.com/webwork) is a bit lighter and easier to manage than Struts? It's also non-web-centric, works very well with Velocity, and is very fast...
(Hey, I figure if Shawn and Hans can plug their own stuff constantly, I can slide in a plug for projects I help out with too!) >From: David Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: JSP Apostrophe in JDBC >Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 04:36:50 -0700 > >--- Joseph Ottinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: "Joseph Ottinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: JSP Apostrophe in JDBC > > Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 06:07:28 -0500 > > > > I find the idea of binding your SQL into your JSP a la DBTags really > > distasteful. It's fine for a quick and dirty hack, but... most of the >time, > > I'm not willing to use crap like that because it ends up making it into > > production when management isn't willing to commit any time to doing it > > right. Once it makes it into production, it turns into a maintenance > > nightmare because a table change means you've got to go into every >freakin' > > page that uses SQL on those tables... when you could have just modified >a > > single manager class (presuming a DAO model) instead. > > > > Does it work with JDBC-ODBC? I sure hope so, because I use and test with > > that all the time. > >To which I respond: > >I'm sure you're right that in a large development environment, using DBTags >wouldn't be optimal. It certainly doesn't follow the MVC architecture. >However, >for small, self-contained projects, it seems to me that it works just fine. >My >web applications tend to have 5 or maybe 6 pages that interact with the >database. Hardly large enough for me to learn how to implement something >like >Struts. (Though, I do plan to learn about Struts, most likely from the >Manning >book on the topic, someday when I have some spare time on my hands!) > >[Note: Joseph asked me to forward his email to the list, so I'm not posting >a >private email response to the list.] > >-David Castro > email[at]davidcastro[dot]com > http://jsp.davidcastro.com > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes >http://finance.yahoo.com > >=========================================================================== >To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff >JSP-INTEREST". >For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST >DIGEST". >Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com ----------------------------------------------- Joseph B. Ottinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://enigmastation.com IT Consultant _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
