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Originally posted by Undertoad
Looks like a committee design combined with a "religious" IT decision to make the entire thing jsp.
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Only the truly devout would think using JSP would rescue a bad design. I very much doubt that the pricetag is a result of using JSP. True, there's probably a boatload of licence cost due to using EJB on Weblogic....but these guys probably have enough volume to justify an EJB approach....which has very little to do with Java Server Pages, of course.
Of course,. it *could* have been executed in ASP or .NET...then it would be a *proprietary* version of the same design, and immune to being ported to a more economical server base; if the archetects of this site have resisted using Weblogic-proprietary APIs, they can migrate pretty easily to another app server, or even mix app servers from different providers to carry this sites workload. The coolness of this would be the ability to examine which app server platform gives them the best performance on a live workload.
At least it continues to work if you refuse cookies. Many ASP-based shopping carts don't.
The site itself doesn't really look to me like a very *bad* design, although it does have that "circus poster" feel that most big ecommerce sites have Every department in the company is entitled a slice of the incoming eyeballs. They tell the stockholders that this is "synergies" and "economies of scale". ;-)
Speaking of religion, one wonders how much of the 17 mil went to making the site bilingual.