[thelist] jsp homepage

[Jon Hall]

I second the motion that the hosting company has no clue. Personally I'd try
and insist that these guys couldn't design their way out of a paper bag, and
force them to feed me the data as an xml feed because their output is
incompatible with the site design, and see if they budge. Maybe they will
miraculously figure out how to configure their web server correctly.  ;-) If
not, then you would have an XML feed, without the need to show the user an
ugly url.
To make the homepage use the db...you need to know what server side language
is available on the server, and know how to access the database.

A simple frame will mask the url though and way you can at least retain
control of the content.

jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Galvin" <mgalvin at sourcevisualthinking.ie>
To: "theList" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 10:05 AM
Subject: [thelist] jsp homepage


> For reasons beyond my control, a client site has been made in jsp, and
tied
> to a database.  Now the client would like to show some contents of the
> database on the homepage, like the last 5 records added to it.
>
> Because of the craptacular hosting company we have (again, beyond my
control
> - the client has some sort of deal with them or something) the jsp
portions
> of the site up to now have all resided on a different port (9080).
>
> To make the homepage use the db, what would I need to do?  My thoughts so
> far are:
>
> 1. Use an iframe or ilayer to hold the db-driven portion of the homepage.
> 2. Load index.html as normal, then redirect to an index.jsp on port 9080
> 3. Cry.
>
> At the moment, I'm plumbing for option 3, but I don't think the client
will
> pay as much for that service.  How do I get around this without causing
> heartache to me and, more importantly, users?  Client?  Meh.
>
> If someone could explain why I'm forced to go to port 9080, that would be
> good too - perhaps there's some way of 'masking' that?
>
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> Michael Galvin
> source visual thinking
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