So JSPs have the annoying property of preserving all whitespace from the source JSP file and outputting it. As soon as your JSP gets at all complex, with conditional logic, variables being set, and so on, you’ll find your HTML source output gets filled more and more with blank lines.
JSP 2.1 to the rescue! […]
And are you in Boston? Because I’ve had at least three or four people asking me if I could come work for them, or if I knew any other Java developers who do UI work. They still haven’t found a replacement for me at my last job, and that’s after more than a […]
Today, for the first time, I added AJAX (aka XMLHttpRequest) to a web application. (Well, it wasn’t actually AJAX, because I was making a synchronous request instead of an asynchronous one, but close enough.) I’ve known about the technique for just slightly longer than it has been dubbed “AJAX”, but never taken the […]
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This post will probably only make sense if you have worked with Java and JSP. Just a warning!
It seems to be commonly accepted that putting code in your JSP pages is a bad thing, at least since the “Model II” architecture (based on the MVC design pattern) and the JSTL tag library were introduced. […]
Joel from Joel on Software just posted a really interesting article about the fall of the Windows API, but I can’t believe that he didn’t include a single mention of Java! Well, besides a tiny paranthetical comment or two. He totally ignores the fact that you can write Java desktop applications (like IntelliJ […]