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
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