On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Len Popp <len.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What I mean is, clients *never* access a .jsp file by URL, e.g.
> "http://www.example.com/app/foo.jsp";. All URLs seen by the client are
> mapped to servlets, not JSP files.

> The reason for doing it this way is to separate app logic from page
> layout. I find it difficult to code a substantial app by mixing Java
> code into JSP pages, and it's lots easier to modify the format of a
> web page if the app logic isn't all tangled up in it.

+1 on that approach, makes life a whole lot easier.

Besides being MVC, it goes along with Tim B-L's classic stance that
"cool urls don't change" -- don't reveal the technology being used by
using a file suffix that you may later want/need to change...

-- 
Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroe...@gmail.com

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