Bear, I like your responses (your experience has affected my decisions numerous times!). I'm wondering what you think about this guy's design for creating reusable input validation custom tags:
http://www.developer.com/java/web/print.php/3287891 Apparently, his argument is that this is a good approach just because you can update the tags or reuse the tags in numerous pages and you always have the validation taken care of (whereas in a servlet you would have to rewrite every time you had a servlet validating a zip code or something like that).
Is he correct? Or can you achieve the same thing with servlets, and in as just a reusable manner?
Also, this guy has his own style for trying to use JSPs and JavaBeans, which suggests it's better than using servlets for validation:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2000/jw-0331-ssj-forms.html Are these guys just smoking something?
Thanks for any more opinions...
[ February 16, 2004: Message edited by: S. C. Huey ]