John Hicks wrote:
> Thanks for the comparison of template engines to JSP. How about some
> database examples?
The $isps example was a real example from Servlets.com with the ISP data
read from a database. My servlet got a result set and passed the data
to the template to be looped over for display. The template hid the
controller logic so well you didn't know it was from a database. :-)
> WebMacro removes Java from HTML pages, but leaves a Perl-like logic.
> Couldn't we take Model-View-Controller further?
Sure, I'm game. WebMacro isn't the only game in town.
> Our XMLServlet uses XML to further remove (database) logic from
> layout. Maybe think of its XML-tagged instructions as Controller,
> matching Model and View, neither of which then need know (much)
> of the other....
Excellent. There are lots of good alternatives to JSP.
-jh-
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