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| <a name="You make the decision."><strong>You make the decision.</strong></a> |
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| The title of this essay is called "You make the decision." The point of |
| this essay is to explore what it is like to develop a web application |
| using a couple of popular tools that are available today. In order to do |
| this, examples of using these technologies will be shown. This will give |
| a nice first person account of what it is like to use these technologies |
| on a daily basis. |
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| The audience of this document is aimed at the people who are looking for |
| alternatives to JSP as well as people who are currently using JSP and |
| JSP based technologies and may not realize that there are other |
| solutions out there that also address the many issues of developing web |
| applications. |
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| <strong>It is possible to navigate through the essay by simply clicking |
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| at any time, click YMTD on the left side navigation. |
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| <a name="What are we comparing?"><strong>What are we comparing?</strong></a> |
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| This multi page document will compare usage of Velocity and JSP. In both |
| cases, we have a framework of reusable code that makes life easier for |
| building web applications by providing the "Model" and "Controller" |
| portions of the MVC paradigm (Turbine and Struts). There is also a |
| template language that provides the "View" portion (JSP and Velocity). |
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| Please note that there are a bazillion different things that could be |
| compared here. To be clear, we are not really trying to compare the |
| feature set of each of these technologies as they both can get the job |
| done. Instead, we are trying to compare what it is like to do the job |
| with each of the tools. |
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| The design concepts mentioned above that we will be exploring have been |
| documented in detail in various locations, for more information, please |
| refer to some of these reference URL's: |
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| <li><a href="http://www.caucho.com/articles/jsp_templates.xtp" target="reference">Caucho MVC JSP</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://www.nwconnection.com/2000_09/web/" target="reference">Novell Connection MVC JSP</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://developer.novell.com/research/devnotes/1999/december/03/02.htm" target="reference">Novell Connection MVC JSP</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://www.webmacro.org/tutorial/mvc.html" target="reference">Webmacro MVC</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://www.javaworld.com/jw-01-2001/jw-0119-freemarker.html" target="reference">Freemarker MVC</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-1999/jw-12-ssj-jspmvc.html" target="reference">Model 2</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-2/pullmodel.html" target="reference">The Pull Model</a></li> |
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| <a name="Credits"><strong>Credits</strong></a> |
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| We would first like to thank the entire <a href="../contributors.html">Velocity</a> and <a href="/turbine/contributors.html">Turbine</a> teams for creating such |
| great products. These groups are a 100% volunteer organization and |
| some very talented engineers have come together from around the world to |
| help make these products a reality and a success. They deserve a round |
| of thanks and appreciation for their hard work and dedication. |
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| Examples, comments as well as the some of the flow of this document has |
| been borrowed with permission from <a href="http://www.servlets.com/">Jason Hunter</a>, author of the |
| excellent <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jservlet2/">O'Reilly |
| Java Servlet Programming, 1st and 2nd Edition book</a>. We do hope that |
| you purchase his next book when it is released in order to support Java |
| Servlets as well as Jason for his hard work. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Jason's book includes chapters covering Struts/JSP, Velocity, and other |
| MVC technologies. We definitely encourage you to read the book to learn |
| JSP and Velocity and see how they compare. What we do here (that Jason |
| couldn't do in the book) is put JSP/Struts and Velocity/Turbine on the |
| same page together for a direct side-by-side comparison. |
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| <a name="Revisions / Corrections / Additions"><strong>Revisions / Corrections / Additions</strong></a> |
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| This <a href="./ymtd-changes.html">page</a> tracks the list of changes |
| in this essay. |
| </p> |
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| It is very important to accurately compare these technologies. |
| Therefore, a lot of effort has gone into this essay to state things as |
| fairly and accurately as possible. Therefore, this entire essay is |
| checked into CVS and it is possible for you to provide feedback, but |
| also patches that fix any mistakes. In other words, this is a community |
| driven document. It is currently stored in the <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/cvsindex.html">CVS tree</a> for the |
| Velocity project in the xdocs directory. |
| </p> |
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| If there are any changes that need to be made to this document, please |
| do not hesitate to contact <a href="mailto:jon@apache.org">Jon Stevens</a>. |
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| On to the rest of the essay... |
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| <strong>[ Next -> <a href="./ymtd-saying-hello.html">Saying Hello</a> ]</strong> |
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