10.3. Presentation Architecture Wrap-Up and Review
This concludes our look at presentation options for Web applications. The technologies we've looked at can be broadly categorized into two groups: structural and formatting. The structural technologies, such as servlets, address the issues of how the client and servers communicate. The formatting technologies, such as JSPs and XML, address how the presentation will be formatted.
On the structural side, servlets are the clear winners of those technologies we've examined so far. We'll need to wait until we've looked at Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) before we understand the whole story, but anyone starting out with new Web applications would be in good shape if they started out with a servlet architecture, ...
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