What Next?
Hopefully, after reading this introduction you now have a general understanding of:
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The general architecture of the Escenic Content Engine
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The object model used to represent the structure and content of Escenic web sites
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The technologies on which the Escenic Content Engine is based
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How you can use Escenic templates to generate HTML pages containing articles retrieved from the Content Engine
There are, however, still a few things you need to know before you are ready to start making your first templates:
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Web application structure
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The template development process
In addition, if you are completely new to JSP programming, then it would probably be a good idea to find out a bit more about:
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JavaServer Pages (JSP) - see http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/docs.html.
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JavaBeans - see http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/javabeans/docs/index.html.
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JSTL - see http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/jstl/reference/docs/index.html.
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JSP expression language - see http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/JSPIntro7.html.