Re: What JSP really offers? What JSP does not do.

[David Bullock]

What JSP does not do, however, is let your web-designer work with pure HTML (unless their editor makes special provision for the JSP tags).  It also will not let unimaginative people visualise the results of your generated content before the servlet is built.

A really nice solution is from www.enhydra.org (opensource project), called XMLC.  You give ID attributes to HTML elements, that are then *replaced* (including their contained elements) by the servlet.  The web-designer and the servlet-programmer agree on what the replaced content will look like when replaced (the servlet-programmer is informed by what the content they're replacing looks like, keeping them away from graphic design!).  Using this, the whole site 'works' for a non-technical user (eg. managers, customers) even before the coding is complete.  Pure HTML, pure Java.  Concrete ID numbers to talk about when discussing how the site will look/operate.  Incredible experience.

This is such an important aspect of the development lifecycle, in my opinion, that JSP is just not good enough for me.

My $0.04,
David.
 

Pere Soler Rubi wrote:

Hi to all,
We are thinking about designe of a web site. We don't know what are the advantages that JSP offers. We have read all the Sun's stuff, but we need some in depth information. Our questions are:

• Does JSP overload the server ?
• Does JSP overload the client ?
• Is really useful for small web sites (whith static data)?
• Does anybody know any technical FAQ or mailing list?

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