“Entertainment-portal Go.com is the latest commercial venture to
join the open source movement with a code the company says fills a
programming hole left by Microsoft and Sun. Go.com, a Walt
Disney company, recently released its Tea template language along
with tools used for website creation. Tea is a Java-based language
that separates the data layer from the presentation layer of Web
content.”
“Go.com created Tea because the numerous news sites in the
Disney family -– Infoseek, ABCNews.com, ESPN.com, and Go.com
–- often use the same news stories, but each has its own
presentation style, so the layout has to be kept separate from the
actual content. The alternative technologies, Java Server Pages
(JSP) for Java or Microsoft’s Active Server Pages, recommend
separation of the data and presentation, but according to Go.com,
they don’t really enforce it.”
“Tea and its components are released under the same license used
by the Apache Group for its Apache Web server, which allows the
user to do anything with the code. It’s much less restricted than
the GNU General Public License (GPL), the most commonly used open
source license.”