Jon Stevens is an Apache Software Foundation Member and the cofounder of the Java and Jakarta Apache projects. He is a cofounder of the Velocity and Turbine projects. He has been developing Web applications since 1994 in various languages and platforms. In 1998, he started to build the Turbine framework in an effort to develop Open Source tools to help developers build complex Web applications.
If you are currently looking for alternatives to JSP and you're tired of
reinventing the wheel each time, then this article can provide you with the
solutions you need to build your Web applications. We'll explore what it's
like to develop a Web application using a couple of popular tools that are
available today - and I'll use examples to show what it's like to use these
technologies on a daily basis.
I'll start by comparing usage of Velocity and JSP. In both cases, we have a
framework of reusable code that makes life easier for building Web
applications by providing the "Model" and "Controller" portions of the MVC
paradigm (Turbine and Struts). There is also a template language that
provides the "View" portion (JSP and Velocity).
First let's start with some easy examples. We'll show more complicated
examples later in the article.
We will not compare the feature s... (more)
Jon Stevens is an Apache Software Foundation Member and the cofounder of the Java and Jakarta Apache projects. He is a cofounder of the Velocity and Turbine projects. He has been developing Web applications since 1994 in various languages and platforms. In 1998, he started to build the Turbine framework in an effort to develop Open Source tools to help developers build complex Web applications.
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