Thanks for the quick response Yu-Meng. I am reading now...
> -----Original Message----- > From: Yu-Meng Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 5:26 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Tomcat questions (long) > > Hi Josh ! > > I can help you out with the first part of your really long email (you > weren't kidding, were you ?). I, too, had a problem with all those > out.println()'s, and there *is* a better solution. You *can* try JSP > code, > but it becomes difficult to maintain after a while -- especially if > you're > trying to do some complex processing. My choice would be Velocity (see > http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/index.html ) It's a template engine > which > makes a very clean (IMHO, at least) division between interface and > implementation. How it works is : you create a normal HTML file, but > put > placeholders in the code that will be populated by your servlet. Then > you > write a servlet that does the processing and outputs the result as a > string > which gets inserted into the placeholder. This is a VERY different > approach > from the more "mainstream" method of JSPs and JavaBeans, which (again > IMHO) > is too complicated and prone to error. A very good comparison can be > found > here : http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/ymtd/ymtd.html > > As for the rest of your email ... well, I'll leave it to others more > knowledgeable and articulate than myself to explain. > > Regards, > Pascal Chong _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
