Mitch Coopet

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February 27, 1999, on Application Servers:
I am currently involved in the evaluation phase of application servers and alternative technical routes that achieve a core goal: "An architecture that supports a component based development framework for reusability and quick development cycles." One of the choices not mentioned is the use of client-side scripting with server-side XML. I am experimenting with using java servlets to serve XML mappings of database queries directly to a browser. A set of javascript routines facilitate the actual event of hitting the web-server with query parameters then capturing and parsing the XML data. This way the user interaction is 'seamless', minimal data is transferred, and the servlet is 100% free of any presentation rules. The drawback is that this is NOT going to work in Lynx. But it achieves separation of data from presentation. It also lets application developers work with a single rapid development tool such as Javascript/HTML and data access component developers develope...