Re: [Soaplab2-dev] description for the dashboard

[Martin S. <se...@eb...>]

> Why we do not want to use any 'pure' servlets?
> 
> Using only JSPs contradicts with my perception of a good design, based
> on my readings and previous experience.
>
   I think that using 'pure' servlets (meaning extending directly
HTTPServletRequest) is using too low level. Your programs must do many
more things (it is like writting a code in assemblre versus writting it in
C). There may be cases where you need it but unless you find that
something is not accessible what you need I think that it is better to
stay on the higher level.
   Do not take mw wrong: I have been myself writing 'pure' servlets
regularly, but later I found that creating, for example, JSP script/page
is much more maintainable and les error-prove - even for things that do
not create an HTML output. 
   If you wish to see one, very small, project where I am using JSP even
for replying to Ajax (HTTPRequest) request by a JSP page, you can look at
the page at http://moby.generationcp.org/mobyenv/checkservices, andcheck
out the code from https://cropforge.org/projects/gcpmoby/, doing:
  cvs -d :pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/gcpmoby login
     (password is empty)
  cvs -d :pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/gcpmoby co Moby_Environment

   Regards,
   Martin

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