RE: beans and JSPs and stuff...

That makes sense, but it could also be done with SSIs, servlets/CGI.  I'm
not saying JSP is not a good way to do it, because it is.  I'm just saying
there are other ways.  I tend to lean towards SSIs because they're so
"modular".

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Loen [mailto:lwloen@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:22 AM
> To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: beans and JSPs and stuff...
> 
> 
> 
> Brad Stone asked:
> 
>    Or is JSP really an advantage?
> 
> One advantage someone pointed out to me was that it would
> be fairly easy, with a JSP-based design, to have a multi-language
> strategy.
> 
> You know what I mean, I trust:  The kind of site where you
> push a button or a link and it takes you between the English,
> French, and German (etc.) version of the web site.
> 
> This depends a little on what the Java "widgets" do,
> but one could imagine that if the "widgets" mostly did
> custom imagery or simply rendered data bases in tables
> and like things, that one could have virtually all the 
> language-dependent
> elements in the JSP, managed by web-designers (or, at least
> those with minimal programming skills) and the rest done by
> the Java programmers, largely in their own language.
> 
> Thus, JSPs could largely if not entirely isolate the whole
> "national language" question from the programming source,
> proper, which everyone wants.
> 
> BTW, Javascript means that many web designers have a minimal
> understanding of programming -- enough to deploy a JSP, I would
> think.
> 
> 
> Larry W. Loen  -   Senior Java and AS/400 Performance Analyst
>                           Dept HP4, Rochester MN
> 
> 
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