Server-side Web (everyone's favourite)

So, I've recently looked into JSP and Java servlets for server-side code, and while I'm not particularly thrilled at all to be working in Java again, I was wondering what /prague/ thinks of it (minus the usual PIG DISGUSTING stuff).

For delivering ``Web2.0'' shitpages, I have to say I'm actually liking this more than any other server-side crap I've used so far. This is probably because that was Python and PHP and thus slower and fucking ugly. (No way I'm gonna touch Ruby either, and node.js can fuck right off.)

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It has a formal definition you can look up, but in common use I typically hear it used to describe a web service that doesn't use SOAP data.  That's a natural result of the .NET framework's WCF making use of it in that way, however, and doesn't really have much relation to its real meaning.