I agree that custom tags are definitely the way to go, eric. Have you used
them much yourself? I am just putting together a site in JSP, so I guess
I'll have to write a few, unless anybody knows a good resource for custome
tags?

chanoch

-----Original Message-----
From: eric.ma@c... [mailto:eric.ma@c...]
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 3:22 PM
To: Java 2 Enterprise Edition
Subject: [j2ee] The J2EE with BEA WebLogic Server book is out


The book is officially out on 10/19.  I have downloaded the source code at
the Wrox UK site (links for the US site were broken as of 10/25), but yet to
get hold of a printed copy.  Last time I checked, the book is available at
Amazon.com with a sales rank of No. 84!  This is unprecedented for a
technical book.

I have set up the application to run on my machine and am in the process of
studying the design.  One glaring feature of the source code is that it is
quite restrained in the use of entity beans (stateless session beans with
JDBC are used instead), and there is a great deal of Java code (including
JDBC) in JSP's (there is no custom tag anywhere).  Is this because the
practical consideration for performance?  What does the rest of the group
think?