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
>
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