Yeah, everything is working. I'm just kinda checking if I'm going on the right path before I continue further. I'd started over from scratch several times as I learned
JSP, starting first using just plain JSTL, then learning how to write
servlets & tags, then learning that most
Java web apps have moved onto using things like Struts where a lot of this is already wrapped up nicely in an API. It seems I'm almost caught up with how modern JSP development is done, I just wanted to double-check again just in case.
I thought the abstraction between the database & front end was just getting the data formatted to a point that was native to Java (Lists in this case) for the Actions to use. Didn't know it was supposed to go further than that.
I'd read briefly about Spring/Hibernate, but I wasn't sure if I should pursue it with this. Maybe I will now.