Re: need expert advice.

[Mark Galbreath]

That's really a decision you have to make based on your deployment environment and on-going maintenance issues.  It's easy enough to do a shopping cart app with ASP and a newsletter with ASP + XML but then you are stuck with using an IIS server.  Many of the early shopping cart apps were done with JavaScript and this gives you server independence because all the processing is done on the client.  I'm not sure how well together JavaScript and XML work together, but my inclination is a dynamic newsletter should be processed on the server.  Java gives you psuedo-platform independence (you have to install the appropriate containers and JREs for the server and there are platform-specific issues regarding the use of AWT and native methods), but certainly is more fluid across architectures than any Microsoft-centric solution.  Of course, if you are developing in a Microsoft environment, you can choose whatever you want and it comes down merely to with what you are most comfortable.  Be aware, however, that if you are looking at maintenance 3-4 years down the road that Microsoft is abandoning all present technologies in favor of .NET (IE 6.0 does not support Java, either).   Good luck! Mark   I am a deeply superficial person.  -Andy Warhol   This email was scanned with Norton AntiVirus 2002 before sending. ----- Original Message ----- From: s i m o n Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 4:07 AM I'm doing a project which involce doing shopping cart, newsletter adding etc. and i have very shallow understanding of java technology. i have 5 months to finish this project. which technology should i use? asp or jsp with servlet?