RE: [WEB400] First Internet application ( "including HTML in CGI programs")

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Brad Stone
>
> I don't know who wrote the rule that having HTML in your RPG
> or any CGI is bad.  It's not.  It's simply an opinion that
> someone gave at one time.  Most likely to sell a product or
> service.

Well, I never said "HTML in RPG is bad", but I did say that mixing
application logic with HTML formatting is architecturally unsound, for any
number of reasons.  But I always say things like that.  Silly me, always
wanting things maintainable and extendable.

Like, for instance, I say that SQL code in your client is architecturally
unsound.  People take this to mean that I say SQL is bad.  It's not.  But
putting direct references to table and column names in a client program is a
bad idea.  Wrappering those references inside an object takes away some of
that problem, using a message-based server eliminates it.

In the HTML case, if your HTML is properly contained in factory objects,
it's not such a bad thing.  Carrying that idea further, if it's completely
abstracted out to a JSP, it's even better.

But hey, that's me and that's my idea.  And since my product is JSP based,
you can add whatever size grain of salt you feel appropriate.

Joe