Why Don't We Hear More About GNU Server Pages (GSP)?

Ozten asks: "I am currently looking at GSP and trying to convince the big e-commerce company that I work for that Open Source technology doesn't mean more maintenance than large packages on the market, such as Blue Martini or IBM Websphere. I am looking for facts and firepower on GNU Server Pages, but info is sparse except for bit mechanics and its links. You would think that with a high profile site like the Star Wars Shop using GSP, it would get more notice. Any other facts out there? GSP seems like the best free software since gnu-SlicedBread, where is the hype?" Actually, I would like more facts than hype. With production sites using this technology, I would be interested in hearing how well the things have held up, in addition to any advantages and disadvantages over popular solutions like ASP.

Comments

Dead technology

[Matts]

Because this technology is totally wrong, and pretty much unsupported. JSP 1.1 is better, but even that is not nearly as nice as the really new technologies coming from Cocoon and AxKit (link below).

Yes, I'm biased, but I truly believe that the next generation web site will have to think about a lot more than just generating dynamic content quickly. And these products implement both dynamic and static content using separate presentation logic in a sensible manner.

It's obsolete

[aboyko]

Although GSP was a nice implementation of an early Java Server Pages spec (0.92, I think), the current JSP language is significantly different. Since JSP 1.0 & 1.1 are widely supported by open source systems, including Apache's jakarta-tomcat and Caucho's Resin (which both completely rock), GSP seems like a poor choice for any new development.

Another problem is that GSP was written to the Servlet 2.0 spec, and fails to run under 2.1/2.2 compliant servlet runners. If you have to run JSPs within a servlet 2.0 environment (like apache jserv), look at gnujsp, which is largely JSP 1.0 compatible.