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Asked: 2026-05-25T01:24:15+00:00

I have a Spring-MVC based webapp with a JSP front end. It is your

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I have a Spring-MVC based webapp with a JSP front end. It is your basic CRUD app with various other management and reporting screens thrown in.

We are currently using JSP with JSTL for our view, but our designer doesn’t know JSP so it’s been a real pain to merge his design changes into the source. Due to that, my recent thought has been that if we could just hand the entire UI over to him and let him implement it entirely in HTML/Javascript, making ajax requests for JSON data for the dynamic portions, we would be able to remove that entire merge process and just host his static HTML files. Development for him would be simple as he would be able to hit our REST webapp on our test server for sample JSON data using jsonp.

If the designer is proficient with javascript, what would we lose by changing our spring-mvc webapp to only return JSON views and use jQote or jquery-tmpl to do all dynamic bits in the HTML?

Are there any deal breakers in going this route?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’d just lose the ability to take advantage of JSP-based frameworks and templates. If:

    • your developer is proficient in Javascript,
    • you expect future developers in his place to be proficient as well, and
    • you are okay with making javascript a requirement for your site

    then this can be a good strategy. The JSON will probably make your AJAX calls a lot faster than returning actual content would do. You’ll probably be able to make the site a lot more responsive to user interaction.

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