mattur - 9:50 pm on Jul 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

With CGI, you were right in the http stream returning headers. The server-side scripting languages (PHP, ASP, etc) moved to the next abstraction layer, where the code moved into the pages. So .NET and J2EE (and obviously this ignores loads of other technologies:)) are the next abstraction level up where you write at the application level.

I layout an information architecture and use it to structure the URLs of the whole site: I want the urls to be usable keywords.

eg:
/widgets/

rather than:
bbbrrrrr.x?Beeep!&wave=adeadCh1cken&sess=;usr=aaarrghh
or something ;)

So I tend to do semi-static sites where a database-backed system maintains a set of directories & files (which can be html or php, asp etc). Do .NET and J2EE make it easier to do this?