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Sunday, 16 June 2002

From Almost All Java Web Apps Need Model 2: You use Model 1, which is page-centric, for simple applications or if you want to get something done quickly. Applications implementing this model have a series of JSP pages where the user proceeds from one page to another. This is the model you always employ when you first learn JSP because it's simple and easy. The main problem with Model 1 applications is that they're hard to maintain and not flexible. In addition, this architecture does not promote the division of labor between the page designer and the Web developer because the developer is involved in both the page development and business objects coding. I've always felt that the MVC helps division of labour argument didn't apply to most development teams (with few developers), however I am a big fan of MVC for other reasons (much easier to test, consistent error checking and sharing of common functionality between 'actions'). Good article.  [paradox1x] 4:10:46 PM  comment []      Blogallery [evhead] 3:47:00 PM  comment []      From The Register's May 6th article WebGain to exit tools, Oracle to buy TopLink. If this is true, it means there will be three major open source IDEs (I'm assuming that Visual Cafe and Webgain Studio are really the same thing): Netbeans, Eclipse, and Visual Cafe. And four if you count jEdit. To me this smacks of desperation a little though. Oracle is falling behind in the IDE competition, Sun and IBM ('the competition') both have/fund large Open Source IDE projects so what other choice does Oracle have? I remain to be convinced that they're not just throwing it out into the community, hoping it will attract developer support. Maybe I'm just too much of an Aussie cynic [Blogging Roller] 3:42:22 PM  comment []