There is at least one very obvious advantage: Jacascript can be turned off on the client side, meaning that validation won't happen at at all. Always write applications that doesn't require...

GET methods also makes it easier for someone to bookmark a page. And your users don't get the annoying "This page contains POST data (...) when they try to use the back and forward buttons in their...

No idea, I never tried. I manage my database connections with Hibernate (persistence framework), and put only view code in the jsp's.

You don't access databases through JSP. JSP comes paired up with servlets written in Java. The servlets (and underlying classes) does all the heavy work, while the JSPs just view the results.

Thanks for your reply. I already found out what was wrong, though - I had jasper-runtime.jar in my lib-catalogue, and that caused, for some reason, the jsp pages to show up blank. Weird, but at least...

Marty Hall has some excellent slides on jsf here: http://courses.coreservlets.com/Course-Materials/jsf.html

I suggest you check those out.

I think it sounds good. Just try to get the input checking away from the servlet and into the java class you're talking about. Java classes (beans) should have that responsibility, and servlet should...

I'm working with an web presentation application now that uses XML for several other things than the ones you mentioned: Saving content of presentation, defining patterns for how the presentations...

Hi,

This is one of those dumb newbie questions, I'm afraid. I'm trying to learn Servlets/JSP by making a small application that allows you to register yourself as a user. I'm using the latest...