Re: Article: Problems with JSPs

[Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>]

> I agree, this does look like a much stricter way of doing things though
> I'm not fluent in XMLese yet. But I still find JSP cooler than any alternatives
> that I've used... thats in the absence of having looked hard at Cocoon and
> how it fits together. I did set Cocoon up and design an XML home page which was
> awesome, but I didn't get much further as I think I had a clash with which
> JSDK I could use, can't recall.

 Perhaps Cocoon is not really the star here. The star is the XSLT idea. I've
said something about a modified JSP, well, they call it XSP. The code to
convert the XSP data to the servlet java code is just an XSLT stylesheet!

> >  XSLT could also be used to easily create new tags, as in taglib. The only
> > thing needed is the proper template. The Cocoon people has created a
> > variation of JSP for this, so the JSP code is generated by the XSLT sheet!
> > Everything about this is in flux, but it's already more powerful than jsp
> > would ever be able to be.
> >
> >  At least that's what I think. Sorry if I've spoken too strongly... =)
> Not at all :)
> The Cocoon/JSP generator sounds pretty cool, I haven't gone with Cocoon
> just yet as I'm waiting on it to firm up. Thanks for the discussion.

 Let's see what happens... =)

 Bye!