Javascript and JSP’s

I spent last week working on some JSP’s. This was my first time using them so I spent sometime doing trial and error. I also used some built-in ATG libraries for formatting content. Overall I found them to be cumbersome compared to View files (.rhtml) in Rails. Maybe this was because the system is old (still on Java 1.3) and I had to use old libraries. I am sure newer Java enterprise web frameworks like Spring make it much easier.

Next I used javascript for some select all and reset selection features. Although a powerful scripting language it can be tricky to debug.

While working with dates I came across the Calendar class in java and I absolutely love it ! You can do all kind of date manipulations, like adding a day or month to a date, comparing two dates etc etc.