Re: [news] Case Study: XMLC vs. Velocity

The "case study" is disgusting.  Should it be required before velocity posts
a comment that the author actually study for at least five minutes the
material being "studied"?  I believe even my worst students do that much!

Glad you got a laugh out of it, Matthew! You have a healthy attitude.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Hixson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 1:58 AM
Subject: [news] Xmlc: Case Study: XMLC vs. Velocity


> I got a laugh out of this "case study."
>
> http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/casestudy2.html
>
> I've never used Velocity, but after working with JSP for the past 3
> years I've come to the conclusion that it is the _wrong_ way to do web
> development.  The biggest thing that bothers me is the lack of compile
> time sanity checking.  JSP promised a separation of code and HTML.
> You've gotta be kidding me if you think it accomplished its goal.  If
> anything JSP leads to nothing but a big inconsistent, poorly
> maintained, highly fragile, unmaintainable nightmare.  Ugh.  I'm trying
> to get away from JSP/custom tags/Struts and move towards a servlet+XMLC
> world.  I think life will be much nicer there.
>   -M@
>
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