[sword-devel] Website Recommendations

[Greg Hellings]

Right now the *tentative* plan is not to use servlets, but rather stick with
JSP. I don't believe that JSP runs in tomcat, but rather uses a different
extention to Apache that is much simpler to work with than the whole ordeal
of setting up and registering tomcat extentions. I remember trying to get
tomcat set up using very nice configuration tools, and it was difficult even
then. JSP is not as difficult to configure - the URL for the page actually
reflects the location of the page, just like HTML pages in Apache. The only
real difference between JSP and HTML is that JSP is able to include certain
amounts of Java code embedded in mostly static HTML pages and thereby
slightly change the content of the pages. Thus, the knowledge of Java
servlets is very helpful for the coding part, since it is the same code but
the big difference is:
Servlet runs server-side and thus requires large overhead and configuration
on the server's end and the HTML is actually output in streams
JSP runs (I believe) client-side and is usually used when only a small
amount of data needs to be generated via Java code, since the page is just
HTML with Java snipets inserted.

--Greg H

On 11/5/05, Lynn Allan <l_d_allan at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> I might be able to help out with jsp pages ... it has been several
> years since I worked with java servlets and tomcat, and I recall it
> involved LOTS of things to get "knitted together" correctly so that
> pages show up ... and the "chain of events" can take some getting used
> to ...
>
> My impression is that with a tutorial on how to get a localhost set up
> for something like apache tomcat, the actual generation of content
> pages isn't too bad ... but there was definitely a learning curve ...
> for me at least
> http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Servlet-Tutorial/
>
> Seems like some existing crosswire pages could serve as templates,
> perhaps in a "sandbox" scenario???
>
> *********************************
>
> Another thing to bear in mind is the infrastructure of the technology
> powering the Web site. There will not be any changes to the
> infrastructure at this time. For now, we need to stick to using
> technologies like Apache/Java/JSP for the content rendering, as such
> as used currently. The firebird database engine is also available. As
> Greg H. mentioned, within reason. So, part of "reason" includes those
> technologies. (I asked what was available and this is the list given
> to us.)
>
> God Bless you all!!!
>
> In Christ,
> Greg M.
>
>
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