This is why a Good Architect is worth his weight in Gold Model View Controller states
View - JSP (user interface) Controller - Servlets (handles incoming reqests and outgoing responses) Model - JavaBeans and/or EJB (contain your business logic like connecting to a DB etc) Anyone else??? -Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian P Bohnet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 8:41 AM Subject: Re: Why use servlets? > I had the privilege of inheriting a medium sized jsp-servlet-ejb > application recently and I have found myself wondering the same thing. I > have been increasingly rewriting most of the code out of the servlets > and into javabeans which has improved memory management, (since the > servlet code used session too much) and maintenance is much easier since > each javabean has its own "controller" aspects similar to what the > servlet's were originally designed to be, but in my case too few > servlets caused the code to be a mess. > > I believe if you are happy with the app and the maintenance of it with > your design then, why have the servlet, right? If you handle the all the > aspects of the application including the 'view' and do not have to rely > on web designers understanding your programming then you should continue > to develop the way you are. Just a warning, I believe plenty of folks > must deal with non-programmers creating the display jsp's so they will > tell you horror stories about this approach! Since you and I handle > every aspect of the application then it makes more since to design this > way. Good Luck! > > Brian > > Campano, Troy wrote: > > >I'm curious as to what the reason is to use Servlets. > >I write straight java class/methods and call them from my JSP. > >My business logic goes into these classes. > > > >JSP handles the interface and handles request/response. > >Usually I guess it's a Servlet that handles the request/response but it > >seemed to me like an added extra step. > >I didn't really see what I was gaining by using a Servlet. > > > >So I'm curious of what the point of Servlets are....is there something > >they give you that JSP doesn't? > >So I know I'm missing something....why use Servlets? > > > >Thank you for your responses! > > > >~ t r o y ~ > > > >Troy Campano > >IAS Database Management > >Liberty Mutual > >(603) 245 4092 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > >=========================================================================== > >To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > >For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > > > >Some relevant archives, FAQs and Forums on JSPs can be found at: > > > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > > http://forums.java.sun.com > > http://www.jspinsider.com > > > > > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > > Some relevant archives, FAQs and Forums on JSPs can be found at: > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://forums.java.sun.com > http://www.jspinsider.com > =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant archives, FAQs and Forums on JSPs can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://forums.java.sun.com http://www.jspinsider.com
