[geeks] You Are in a Maze of Twisty Tunnels...

[Matty]

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 12:08, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 11:28 AM, Matty wrote:
> >> Figuring out the whole J2EE thing is on my list of things to do.  But 
> >> in
> >> the mean time, JSP sounds really bad to me.  Take something similar to
> >> ASP (but with Java instead of javascript), and have the web server
> >> compile the JSP file to a .class file on the fly?  Sure, a server 
> >> should
> >> be able to cache the files once compiled, but still.
> >
> > The JSP is munged into a servlet, and executed by the web
> > container/servlet engine. This is only occurs (At least with
> > Tomcat/iPlanet) the first time a JSP is invoked. JSP is
> > actualyl a great piece of technology, and is not web server
> > specific (ASP for the most part is, though Chilisoft is
> > supposed to provide the ability to run ASPs on different
> > platforms).
> 
>    ...except that it's horrifically ugly and damn near impossible to 
> read.

I think that comment should be directed to the one coding the JSPs. JSPs
can be written cleanly. Unfortunately not many ppl take the time to do
that :(

> But yes, one can do amazing things with it, and it (if done right) is 
> quite zippy, and it's not a Microsoft-centric "lockyouinware" mess.
> 
>         -Dave
> 
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