We have used ASP for about 2 years and are just getting to look into JSP and
servlets, but like what we have seen so far. We have had a lot of headaches
and problems with ASP and the IIS platform as some of the others that
replied have mentioned. The link below has a good article that compares ASP
and JSP without trying to trash one or the other.
http://www.asptoday.com/articles/19991022.htm
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Christopher G. Luttrell
Tennessee Valley Authority
Information Services
(865) 632-2362
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> From: David Geary[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: David Geary
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 10:01 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: JSP vs. ASP
>
> I just finished reading Sun's "Comparing JavaServer Pages and Microsoft
> Active Server Pages Technologies" article from the Java Web site -- see
> http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/jsp-asp.html.
>
> The article claims that Java provides superior performance over
> interpreted scripting languages. Of course, the article fails to mention
> that compiled servlets are byte code that also gets interpreted. So, is
> there any validity to this claim? Does JSP provide a noticeable
> performance increase over ASP?
>
> Memory management and exception handling are also cited as JSP
> advantages. This seems like a legitimate claim to me. Are there any
> former ASP developers on this mailing list that have run into problems
> stemming from misbehaving applications crashing servers because of
> memory mismanagement. Have any of you former ASP developers found
> yourself cursing ASP because it lacked exception handling?
>
> The article implies that JSP emphasizes components over scripting, which
> makes it easier to revise content without affecting logic and vice
> versa. However, it seems as though ASP is just as "componentized" as
> JSP; after all, ASP can use COM objects and JSP can use JavaBeans. Am I
> missing something here? Is JSP somehow more component worthy than ASP?
>
> Speaking of components, I would venture that COM objects are more
> plentiful and mature than JavaBeans, which would give ASP an advantage
> over JSP. Is this a valid assertion?
>
> As far as I understand, ASP does not provide a customizable tag
> mechanism as does JSP. Is that the case? Does anyone know if Microsoft
> plans to add such a feature to ASP in the future? I can see that a
> customizable tag mechanism would be beneficial, but how big of a deal is
> it? Does anyone care to comment on how they are using customizable tags,
> and how miserable life would be without it?
>
> Of course the biggest advantage of JSP over ASP cited by Sun is the fact
> that JSP is platform independent, and therefore more widely supported by
> Web server and application server vendors. However, there are companies
> that have developed plug-ins for servers other than Microsoft servers to
> run ASP. In light of that, how big of an advantage is JSP's platform
> independence?
>
> JSP is language specific but platform independent, whereas ASP is
> language independent and platform specific. Language independence is
> probably quite an advantage for companies with legacy systems, whereas
> platform independence seems to be somewhat of a dubious advantage
> because of the fact that software can be purchased to run ASP on non
> Microsoft's Web servers. Comments?
>
> Finally, I'd love to see a show of hands from former ASP developers that
> have moved over to JSP, with a short explanation of why you made the
> switch.
>
>
> david
>
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