JSP Technology -- Friend or Foe?
By Brett McLaughlin
2003-03-07
Resources
Read the current JSP specification, and get the whole story.
Get ahead of the game by checking out what's coming up in JSP 1.2.
Worried about XML compatibility? You can get all the details on XML by reading the specification and Molly Holzschlag's article for developerWorks on getting up to speed with XHTML.
Get the XML view of styling documents at the W3C Style Center.
Want a J2EE solution that provides more than JSP, and is open source, too? Read about Enhydra today.
Come out of your shell and check out Apache Cocoon, an open source alternative for handling dynamic content using XSLT.
If you don't mind jumping out of Java, template engines can save the day! Two worth taking a look at are WebMacro and FreeMarker.
Tutorial Pages:
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A critical look at JavaServer Pages servlets as a viable presentation technology
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A bit of history
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The premise
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Segregation vs. integration
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Work vs. rework
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The promise of JSP technology
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Content vs. presentation
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Code vs. markup
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Designer vs. developer
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The problems
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Portability vs. language lock-in
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Mingling vs. independence
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Blurring the line between content and presentation
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Single-processing vs. multi-tasking
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HTML vs. XML
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Summary
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First published by IBM developerWorks
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