Day 13. JavaServer Pages
Yesterday, you looked at developing Web applications using Java servlets. Servlets have the advantage of being able to generate the HTML Web page dynamically. The disadvantage of servlets is the fact that the developer must generate a lot of HTML formatting information from within Java. Servlets can be described as large amounts of boring HTML println() statements interspersed with small amounts of interesting Java code.
Servlets make it difficult to differentiate the presentation layer from the logic layer of an application. This duality of purpose means that servlets do not allow the roles of HTML designer and Java programmer to be easily separated. Writing servlets requires the members of the development team to be ...
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