Hi
This is all just my personal opinion, and I have to admit I know nothing
aout coldfusion.
The diffrences are that ASP is interpreted whereas JSP's/Servlets are
compiled bytecode, this allows for faster execution. BOth require a kind of
'virtual machine' like the JVM or ASP.dll so they both have that overhead.
Also, ASP by itself does not scale too well across multiple servers so if
you REALLY need mass load balancing you have to keep throwing hardware at
your problem, and, possibly rewrite your site. I have seen technical
documents where this is no longer the case with Windows 2000/NT 5, but, I
have not tested this at work yet.
All in all, JSP's (and Servlets) are much quicker to run and allow for some
incredible load balancing if you get into an RMI / EJB solution. We've built
a prototype multi tier network using all open source componenets (Apache,
Linux, JServ, Jonas, JTA, EJB) and it's very very responsive.
Now here's another take on this issue. Who is working on the project and
what are their skills? Our company had (has) a problem where we have alot of
ASP programmers and we are looking at a few projects that will require the
ability to handle a killer load (milions a day if we're lucky). Problem is
we don't have enough skilled Java programmers to handle ALL the projects
that may need this. SO what do we do? Hire a whole new slew of programmers
(almost 70) or do we just 'throw the hardware' at it and use something lime
MSLBC (Microsoft Load Balancing Components)?
The great debate rages on.
In a perfect world, I would have looked at this a year ago before the
company committed to ALL asp developement, but this isn't a perfect world so
we have to find a happy medium.
If I had 3 wishes I would wish the follwing.
- Good health to all!
- World peace!
- JSP/Servlets on all my web projects
:)
I hope this helped.
Erin Go Bragh - Happy St. Patricks Day to all!!
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Subject: JSP vs. ASP & Cold Fusion
Hi,
We're starting a new web project and are trying to figure out which
technology we should use. Could you offer up some opinions on why we
might use JSP instead of ASP or Cold Fusion.
Thanks,
Sam
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