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Blog Archive for jfalkner during October 2003

Jayson, Maybe you can make sense of this EL question. Background is after the questions. 1.) Who is the EL audience? 2.) How is Sun marketing EL to PHP and non-java web developers? 3.) Is this more fashion than function? 4.) Are non-java developers using EL? 5.) Does EL make it harder for java developers? At a recent JUG, people unanimously said Java code in JSP is bad. In a JSF...
Hi, I saw your blog on java.net and thought I'd ask a couple of questions.... Do you think all Java/J2EE developers should be blogging, or just those that are senior, or in consultant roles? Should blog-reading be for general education/feel of the "community", or do you think blogs are only useful when searching for answers to specific problems? If everyone should blog, where do I go to get...
Blarg #1: Why are JSPs still relevant? You seem like the perfect guy to ask. Let me explain the question; I'm in projects that run for a very long time, we have to maintain them and add features for at least a year, but probably longer. Having bare JSPs (or even really nice tagged ones) makes this hard to maintain and keep bug-free for a very simple reason; The application programmer has to do...
Blogging, the shameless method of displaying ones opinions on the net. It makes a person feel important, authoritative, as if the whole world is taking the time to read what they write. I don't like blogs. I fail to see them as much more than another time-leaching distraction on the web. Sure, sometimes you will find a gem or two, but overall it is just another quick information fix for us net...