Hi,
I'm new to
JSP, but not to
Java, and am interested in building a 'web application' with a MySQL back-end. I've read through the book 'Core
Servlets and JSP' by Marty Hall and Larry Brown. It seems to cover everything I need, but...
Googling for e.g. JSP and Hibernate (since I don't really want to have to learn all the SQL crap), all I get are links to
Struts or Struts2 or other frameworks, and have even come across posts saying 'only old school morons use straight JSP or servlets these days. To be l33t you need Struts2.'
But after taking a look at struts, I think it's really a lot of overkill and have always had an aversion to 'frameworks' anyway, so can someone tell me what I'm missing? Is there really some great advantage to using struts or some other 'framework'? Am I going to get laughed off the stage if I mention I've written my stuff with straight JSP? P.S. the fact that struts1 had to be completely rewritten to get to struts2 seems to indicate to me that I should stay away from it, but I'd be happy to find out I'm misinformed.
Thanks,
Pat