Re: Re: Migrating away from JSP, etc.

On Wednesday 01 October 2003 18:19, Justin Akehurst wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, David Corbin wrote:
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> > I have to ask, what is making you migrate away from JSP/Struts/Custom
> > Tags?
>
> My beef is mostly with JSP and custom tags.
>
> I'm finding that they are hard to maintain.  You cannot just hand a JSP
> either with scriptlet code or custom tags and expect a web monkey that
> only knows HTML and flash to figure out how it works.
>

I can't address this, because I've never worked with a "web monkey" that 
wasn't also a Java programmer.  But I do think they're hard to maintain.

> Also, we are delivering cobranded sites, and do not want to write our
> engine code more than once for the same thing.

A good thing.  Separation of business logic from presentation is key, in any 
technology.

> I've heard murmurs of people using Struts and XMLC together but have not
> seen anything concrete come from that.  Anyone willing to provide us with
> some insight on how that works?  Googling for anything XMLC related turns
> up some really old tutorials and postings from the list, but little else.

Actually, I posted about our solution regarding XMLC & Struts just last week 
(9/22) -- check the archives. (Subject: XMLC and Struts)
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David Corbin <dcorbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>