Re[2]: Barracuda: JSP Support

Hello Ron,

Given that XMLC-2.2 will have server-neutral XMLC class and template
reloading capabilities (see David Li's demo at: http://homepage.mac.com/taweili/XMLC.html ), I don't see a huge reason to support JSP's.
However, you hit the nail on the head when you say that it would make
the transition from JSP to XMLC/Barracuda much easier for JSP
developers and that is reason alone to implement such a JSP template
type thing.

If you are willing to implement a solution, I don't think we'd have
any problem including this in Barracuda.  What do others think?

Jake

Friday, December 13, 2002, 11:39:34 AM, you wrote:

RA> Now that this has come up again, I'd like to add my experience and lobby for 
RA> support of JSP templates in Barracuda.  We started building an app in 
RA> Barracuda for one of our customers (Nike) but then had to convert it to 
RA> servlets/JSPs because they didn't like the fact that XMLC templates don't get 
RA> recompiled on the fly like JSPs do.  Now I know that XMLC has such a feature 
RA> but since our customer within Nike runs JRun it wouldn't work (and we would 
RA> have had to implement class loader stuff to fix it).  In addition, I doubt 
RA> that would have pleased them very much because their entire team was used to 
RA> Struts and JSPs, so we caved.  I personally MUCH prefer XMLC over JSPs, but 
RA> if we could have used JSPs as templates we would have been able to build the 
RA> app in Barracuda. (I think Tim D. had an experience like this with Nike too.)  
RA> In any case, I think choice is generally a good thing and might also flatten 
RA> the Barracuda learning curve a bit for new users.  

RA> Kirk, I'd be more than happy to help you implement this if it gets the green 
RA> light.  Thanks all.

RA> Ron


RA> -----Original Message-----
RA> From: Kirk Daries
RA> Sent: Friday 13 December 2002 2:59 am
RA> Subject: Barracuda:  JSP Support

>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> Small question regarding JSP support in Barracuda.
>> My company is split into 2 divisions.
>>
>> One division uses Struts. The other Barracuda.
>> Needless to say...
>> My team is ~WAY~ more productive than the other team. ;)
>>
>> We've just received word that management would like to see 'the other team'
>> move
>> away from Struts and over to Barracuda. I've been speaking to one of
>> their developers and he was inquiring about intergrating the work that they
>> have already done into Barracuda. From what I understand.
>> He'd still like to use JSP pages instead of XMLC.
>>
>> I know that there have been a couple of posts about this.
>> And I vaguely remember Christian talking about the need to look into the
>> rendering package
>> to implement a JSP renderer for the BComponents, etc.
>>
>> Basically I'm asking this is planned for any time soon.
>> And if not. Where do I start coding! :D
>>
>> Regards
>> KD
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