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JSTL vs JavaCC

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Overview

JSTL
JSTL
Stacks25
Followers24
Votes0
JavaCC
JavaCC
Stacks3
Followers3
Votes0
GitHub Stars1.3K
Forks250

JSTL vs JavaCC: What are the differences?

What is JSTL? A collection of useful JSP tags which encapsulates the core functionality common to many JSP applications. It has support for common, structural tasks such as iteration and conditionals, tags for manipulating XML documents, internationalization tags, and SQL tags. It also provides a framework for integrating the existing custom tags with the JSTL tags.

What is JavaCC? A parser generator for use with Java applications. It is the most popular parser generator for use with Java applications. In addition to the parser generator itself, it provides other standard capabilities related to parser generation such as tree building (via a tool called JJTree included with JavaCC), actions and debugging.

JSTL and JavaCC belong to "Java Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by JSTL are:

  • tags for manipulating XML documents
  • internationalization tags
  • SQL tags

On the other hand, JavaCC provides the following key features:

  • Generates parsers that are 100% pure Java, so there is no runtime dependency on JavaCC and no special porting effort required to run on different machine platforms
  • Lexical specifications can define tokens not to be case-sensitive either at the global level for the entire lexical specification, or on an individual lexical specification basis
  • Comes with JJTree, an extremely powerful tree building pre-processor

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JSTL
JSTL
JavaCC
JavaCC

It has support for common, structural tasks such as iteration and conditionals, tags for manipulating XML documents, internationalization tags, and SQL tags. It also provides a framework for integrating the existing custom tags with the JSTL tags.

It is the most popular parser generator for use with Java applications. In addition to the parser generator itself, it provides other standard capabilities related to parser generation such as tree building (via a tool called JJTree included with JavaCC), actions and debugging.

tags for manipulating XML documents; internationalization tags; SQL tags
Generates parsers that are 100% pure Java, so there is no runtime dependency on JavaCC and no special porting effort required to run on different machine platforms; Lexical specifications can define tokens not to be case-sensitive either at the global level for the entire lexical specification, or on an individual lexical specification basis; Comes with JJTree, an extremely powerful tree building pre-processor; Includes JJDoc, a tool that converts grammar files to documentation files, optionally in HTML.
Statistics
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
1.3K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
250
Stacks
25
Stacks
3
Followers
24
Followers
3
Votes
0
Votes
0
Integrations
Spring Boot
Spring Boot
Java EE
Java EE
Java
Java

What are some alternatives to JSTL, JavaCC?

Quarkus

Quarkus

It tailors your application for GraalVM and HotSpot. Amazingly fast boot time, incredibly low RSS memory (not just heap size!) offering near instant scale up and high density memory utilization in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. We use a technique we call compile time boot.

MyBatis

MyBatis

It is a first class persistence framework with support for custom SQL, stored procedures and advanced mappings. It eliminates almost all of the JDBC code and manual setting of parameters and retrieval of results. It can use simple XML or Annotations for configuration and map primitives, Map interfaces and Java POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) to database records.

guava

guava

The Guava project contains several of Google's core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based projects: collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency libraries, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and so forth.

Thymeleaf

Thymeleaf

It is a modern server-side Java template engine for both web and standalone environments. It is aimed at creating elegant web code while adding powerful features and retaining prototyping abilities.

JSF

JSF

It is used for building component-based user interfaces for web applications and was formalized as a standard through the Java Community

JavaMelody

JavaMelody

It is used to monitor Java or Java EE application servers in QA and production environments. It is not a tool to simulate requests from users, it is a tool to measure and calculate statistics on real operation of an application depending on the usage of the application by users. It is mainly based on statistics of requests and on evolution charts.

RxJava

RxJava

A library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs by using observable sequences for the Java VM.

MapStruct

MapStruct

It is a code generator that greatly simplifies the implementation of mappings between Java bean types based on a convention over configuration approach. The generated mapping code uses plain method invocations and thus is fast, type-safe and easy to understand.

Java 8

Java 8

It is a revolutionary release of the world’s no 1 development platform. It includes a huge upgrade to the Java programming model and a coordinated evolution of the JVM, Java language, and libraries. Java 8 includes features for productivity, ease of use, improved polyglot programming, security and improved performance.

Apache FreeMarker

Apache FreeMarker

It is a "template engine"; a generic tool to generate text output (anything from HTML to auto generated source code) based on templates. It's a Java package, a class library for Java programmers.

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