> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael McGrady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 1:12 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Servlet help for a Struts programmer > > > At 12:57 PM 8/10/2004, you wrote: > >From: "Michael McGrady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > There is no project that is "just servlets" unless it is nuts. > > > >It is *entirely* possible that there are webapps still > running out there > >that are done completely with Servlets. No JSP, no Struts, > nothing but > >(IIRC) out.println( "bunch of html here"); > > > >Struts did not always exist, and since JSP's get compiled > into Servlet code, > >they had to come after Servlets, indicating that there was a > point in time > >when there were only Servlets. Even if the Servlet & JSP > specs came out > >together, it's entirely possible that the original author was more > >comfortable writing straight Java and avoided JSP for that > or some other > >reason. > > > >Someone who came straight to Struts would not necessarily > have a clue about > >mapping Servlets in web.xml, or getting parameters directly from the > >request, etc. Yes, Struts is based on Servlets, but you > don't have to know > >anything about Servlets to make a useful Struts webapp. > > > >To the OP, if no one has yet suggested it, Jason Hunter's > "Java Servlet > >Programming" book is getting dated (perhaps there is a new > edition now?) but > >is a good reference. > > > >-- > >Wendy Smoak > > A webapp completely in servlets? No helper classes? No > decoupling from > Servlets at all? I doubt it! But, if so, it is nuts, as I said, and > certainly not the question here. I assume that he would like to do > something that does not resemble the stone age.
Guess what.... don't doubt it. I did it. I wrote them. I hated it. It was painful. It was complex. It was ugly. In fact if you see a url that includes something like /servlet/blah you are probably looking at a website done entirely in servlets. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
