JSP Technology -- Friend or Foe?

By Brett McLaughlin
2003-03-07

The promise of JSP technology

Now, on to the specifics of JSP coding. The promise of JSP technology is to supply the designer and developer the only presentation technology they will ever need. JSP technology is part of the J2EE platform, which is the strongest show of support Sun can give one of its Java products. To give you an idea of how prevalent this solution is, try running a search on 'JSP' at amazon.com; you'll find more books devoted to JSP technology than about almost any other single Java API. Before I dive into the specific problems that JSP technology presents, you need a clear understanding of what it claims to do.

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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