> In JSP it may not be so simple, but I suspect you could, with work, > pull off something similar to this. Actually it is trivial and a terrific way for servlet developers to go. Let the servlet do all the hard work of gathering data and preparing it in a bean, and then pass that bean to the JSP page of your choice, which will use it to display the data. Next issue. Dan > ---------- > From: Justin Wells[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java > Servlet API Technology. > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 2:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: JSP vs Servlets - How about this .... > > Quoting Pankaj Malviya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > All the discussion that is going on about JSP vs Servlet doesn't answer > > following questions: > > > Many a times in business logic the target page is dependent on the > contents > > of source page. In these scenario a submit button cannot point to a > fixed > > JSP page. What may happen is that submit button may point to a servlet > where > > decision about the target page is taken and then the page is chained > using > > requestDispatcher method. > > In a template system you do not use the chaining stuff so much. What you > do is view the servlet as an entry point into a program--probably you > have one servlet per "task" or something, each of which is capable of > returning several different pages related to that task. > > You can write a different method, or invoke methods on different objects, > depending on what page it is you currently want to display. You just load > up the template you want by name, and populate a hashtable with the > information relevant to that particular view. > > The need (and the cost) of chaining servlets goes away. > > In JSP it may not be so simple, but I suspect you could, with work, > pull off something similar to this. > > Justin > > - - - > WebMacro Servlet Framework > http://webmacro.org > > __________________________________________________________________________ > _ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the > body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
