Hi all,
I beg to differ on a few points mentioned between ASP and JSP.
The transition is dependent on which scripting language someone is more
comfortable with (Java/JavaScript or Visual Basic)... that's a given. But
as far as usability, it entirely depends on the configuration you would like
to go with. Although ASP is Microsoft-specific (although that is no longer
true with advent of 3rd Party software packages aimed at Unix-based servers
to adopt ASP & PerlScript), ASP+ and all the new bells and whistles that
will become available along the MS platforms would quantitatively and
qualitatively match up with the JSP potentials (as far as what is being
produced today, not next year).
In the end, they are equal: ASP+ allows an entire OS to be your web
application... JSP, too, brings a Unix or Java-based OS to become your web
application, too. To either, snap on an XML-based database, and if your
code is created with attention and possibility of expansion, then it, too,
will become platform independent (as ASP applications can be ported... and
JSP applications can be moved).
Important to point out: Although security is 'serious' with Microsoft, it
must be noted that it is still proprietary... which means experts must
decode the code......... for Open Source platforms and applications, the
code is already decoded -- it just becomes a matter of placing a sign over
the open doors, or making a door and recompiling the kernel.
Ultimately, being an eCommerce VB/ASP developer for 7 years, and an
eCommerce Java/JSP developer for over a year, I found my transition quite
straightforward.
Final Point: If your application is properly programmed (designed), it
wouldn't matter whether it's created with ASP or JSP. Wait until ASP+ has
been fully released before delving into it... if you cannot wait, begin with
the language you are more comfortable with (ASP or JSP).
Yours Truly,
Nasser
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duffey, Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: ASP vs JSP
> I would be to differ. JSP is much easier to use than ASP if you know Java.
> If your more a Windows/Visual Basic person than ASP will be easier. I find
> JSP much easier to work with and offers a lot more than ASP does in the
way
> of functionality. You get the full JDK available (if you want), as well as
> the power of using it on any platform (as you said) which can ultimately
> give you much more powerful servers, thus increase performance,
reliability,
> and scalability. COM is inherently more complex to work with than
JavaBeans
> and EJB, although EJB isn't a piece of cake either. Even is ASP+ is
compiled
> into some format, its still tied to Windows, while your JSP code can move
> not only to any platform, but to any app server that implements J2EE on
that
> platform. So now you are free to choose the platform AND the software to
run
> your code with. Plus, I am quite sure Java/EJB is, or will soon have much
> more support for enterprise development than MTS/ASP/COM/DCOM. There is a
> reason Java is now the #1 sought after development language and a large
> number of companies are flocking to J2EE. J2EE is made up of many big
> companies (and many small ones), while MTS/ASP and all that jazz is
strictly
> MS. This is one place I think MS wont come close on. They have lost this
war
> of enterprise solutions in my opinion. There are still a lot of people
that
> are solid MS and anti-java, but there are a lot more realizing the
potential
> for java based solutions.
...
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