Hi, I am at the process of learning JSP, and there are some things I see problematic. If there is a solution for my problem please let me know. First I don't like the fact that there aren't enough standard tag libraries for pervasive operations like database, cookies, html parsing, etc....There are downloadable libraries however, for example the book I am using uses it's own tag libraries and beans which the user has to download. The problem I see with this is that, it is not a standard, which means that if I want to migrate the code it wouldn't work unless I also transfer over the proper classes and tag libraries. Why don't they have a standard out there for JSP rather than using third party classes and tag handlers. Is there a standard java JSP specification tag libraries out there or do we as programmers have to make all the custom tags/ tag handlers for the common programming tags like database,cookies,parsing. etc... In my opinion JSP is a very hard technology to learn and is very misleading because most think of (including myself) JSP as Java's version of "PHP" or "ASP". But in my opinion JSP technology is harder to learn than Java servlets. The reason why I think this is because with all the things you have to learn like creating your own tags which uses XML,creating scriplets( which in my opinion is the easiest part to JSP), creating your own JavaBean, and to top it all off , not having a standard JSP tag library makes it very diffucult as a programmer. It's a combination of XML,ASP/PHP,JavaBeans and Java Servlet. Does anyone share the same view as me or is JSP just about the scriplets and not about any of the other parts I mentioned.
