Abstract:
Java Server Pages (JSP) and Active Server Pages (ASP) have been extensively
used for producing dynamic web content. JSP has been placed as the tool to develop
the front end of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) compliant web applications. Despite
their wide use, there are still questions to be addressed by these technologies, such as:
How easy and rapid is it to develop applications with these two technologies? Why is
J2EE getting a tough competition from other recent frameworks? In this paper, we
propose a new technology, XML Server Pages (XSP), which aims to support Rapid
Application Development (RAD) within J2EE environments and, thus, allows J2EE to
survive the competition. XSP is based on an architecture that makes it flexible and
platform independent. HTML and JavaScript knowledge is all that is required to build
J2EE compliant applications with the XSP technology. Our empirical work shows that
it is easier and faster to build dynamic web applications using XSP than with existing
technologies.
