[thelist] force a human intervention requirement for signu ps oraccess to resources

david.landy at somerfield.co.uk david.landy at somerfield.co.uk
Thu Feb 12 04:18:12 CST 2004


Hi Guys,

Does anyone know how to divide up website functionality in an MVC-compliant
site? I'm building a database front-end in jsp, and my plan so far is to
have a single controller jsp page (the Controller) which receives all
requests, updates the database as neccessary via javabeans (the Model), then
routes requests to various different display-type jsp's (the View). Is this
the way to go, or am I missing something? :-) The corporate standard here is
Struts, but I think it'll take me too long to learn to get up and running
quickly... (I've only just learned Java and jsp ;-S) 

My theory is that at least if I make it MVC-compliant it'll be upgradable
later to Struts without ripping the whole app apart. 

The view will contain a standard grid view (using an html table) for each
table in the db, along with a page to add/edit records for each table. These
add/edit pages will have the data entry boxes at the top of the screen,
followed by the standard grid displaying a pageful of rows from the relevant
table. I'm toying between either (a) copying and pasting html into each of
those pages to display the grid, or (b) using a <jsp:include to pull in the
grid code. Which do you think would be more effective?

The way I see it, the advantage of (a) is that it'd be easy for a later
developer to follow what's going on; also each add/edit/view page gets their
own version of the code so they can be customised to look different. 

On the other hand, using the include in (b) would ensure that a change made
to the grid in the original code (eg adding a new column) would
automatically appear in the other pages. 

What do you think? Views very welcome.

Thanks in advance,

David.
 
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