JSP Technology -- Friend or Foe?

By Brett McLaughlin
2003-03-07

Mingling vs. independence

Throughout this article, I've come back to the idea of separating content from presentation. You're probably pretty sick of hearing about this, so now's the time to determine whether or not JSP actually accomplishes this goal. As I've already discussed, JSP claims to have been designed for this separation purpose, and therefore we should assume it achieves its objectives, right? Not necessarily.

Tutorial Pages:
» A critical look at JavaServer Pages servlets as a viable presentation technology
» A bit of history
» The premise
» Segregation vs. integration
» Work vs. rework
» The promise of JSP technology
» Content vs. presentation
» Code vs. markup
» Designer vs. developer
» The problems
» Portability vs. language lock-in
» Mingling vs. independence
» Blurring the line between content and presentation
» Single-processing vs. multi-tasking
» HTML vs. XML
» Summary
» Resources

First published by IBM developerWorks

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