Taking Control from HTML
Beginning with CGI programming, dynamic Web presentations were created by Perl scripts that were welded to the HTML markup language. Print statements with hard-coded HTML elements enabled rapid development at the price of creating presentations that were next to impossible to rework. This style of development led to a large market of valuable hybrid HMTL/Perl designers/developers. Often, the developer's value lay in the prospect of the chaos that would result if they were to leave the company.
The requirement for first generation enterprise-quality Web applications, typically built by consultants, drove the emergence of server-side Java. The proliferation of server-side Java resulted, in part, from the consultants who ...
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