JSP is an (relatively) open-standard that can run on a variety of
platforms (e.g. there are servlet and JSP engines from a variety of
vendors including open-source projects at www.apache.org).
ASP (in reality JSPs primary competitor) is a proprietary standard
from Microsoft. It runs best on IIS and NT, though a company
called ChiliSoft sells a product to run ASP on other servers. This is
a popular choice among MS die-hards.
ColdFusion is a proprietary solution from Allaire. If you don't want
to learn Java or VBScript, but rather want to look at a solution
entirely based around XML/HTML tags then ColdFusion is for you.
I'm more inclined to JSP nowadays. There's a lot more vendors to
choose from to run the product (in particular an open-source
solution at Apache) and runs on a lot more platforms than any
other option. Because it makes it easier to integrate JavaBeans
and Java servlets into the mix, you get a much more flexible &
cleaner solution in the long run I think.
I have first hand experience with ColdFusion and JSPs. While
ColdFusion is very powerful for a 'tag' based language, I think you
have to go through more hoops to get a project done than I like to
do. I'm also not fond of programming languages that you can only
do 1 thing with (which is why I prefer Perl and Java for my
development purposes).
Mark
On 16 Mar 00, at 14:34, Sam LeBlanc wrote:
> 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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