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

[Dave McGuire]

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.
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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Dave McGuire           "I'll send you adapters to go both ways."
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