I got a laugh out of this "case study."
http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/casestudy2.html
I've never used Velocity, but after working with JSP for the past 3
years I've come to the conclusion that it is the _wrong_ way to do web
development. The biggest thing that bothers me is the lack of compile
time sanity checking. JSP promised a separation of code and HTML.
You've gotta be kidding me if you think it accomplished its goal. If
anything JSP leads to nothing but a big inconsistent, poorly
maintained, highly fragile, unmaintainable nightmare. Ugh. I'm trying
to get away from JSP/custom tags/Struts and move towards a servlet+XMLC
world. I think life will be much nicer there.
-M@
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