Publishing Frameworks for Adapting to the Future

The dynamic beginnings of the Web started with Perl CGI scripting. Perl scripts heavily leveraged print statements to spit out hardcoded HTML. Servlet programming and JavaServer Pages do much the same. It wasn't until later that developers started to see the limitation to this approach. When it was time to make changes to the presentation, what was fun to build was not as fun to maintain.

Perhaps this style of generating markup language is coming to an end, as the development world moves to adopt device-independent strategies in preparation for the black box of a device-crazy world. Is your application prepared to adopt yet another set of clients enabled by yet another W3C specification? After ...

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