13.2. Compare ColdFusion and Java Web Technologies
There are many advantages to using ColdFusion over Java Web technologies. Increasingly, however, the current trend in Web development is toward Web services; that is, the ability to interact with data objects on remote hosts. (This is now very easy to do in CFMX and is getting to be easier to do with Java.) It is useful, therefore, to compare ColdFusion and JSP and servlets to determine when and how to use them.
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We will not cover specific details of writing servlets here. You can do everything on the server with a JSP that you would want to do in a servlet, and since the introduction of the JSP Standard Tag Library and the proliferation of other tag libraries, it is much faster to work with ...
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