Maybe what he means is that many operations that are done in CF with
built-in tags are done in ASP by accessing COM/ActiveX objects; I'm not very
familiar with the specifics of ASP, but I think the sort of functions that
CFMAIL, CFHTTP, and CFFTP fulfill in CF are done by instantiating a COM
object in ASP. There is some potential advantage in the ASP way; for
instance, if some piece of business logic (calculating commissions, checking
orde status) has already been implemented as a COM object, you can reuse
that functionality in ASP. With CFOBJECT CF can also work with COM (and
java, and corba) components, but because, I think, of CF's "weak typing",
there are many COM objects that CF cannot interface with directly.
But to address the original question, CF and ASP _are_ both template-based;
it's mostly the manner in which they are extended to talk to outside code
that's different.
IMHO, of course..
-----Original Message-----
From: Earl, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 8:17 AM
To: 'Listserv, Cold Fusion'
Subject: CF is 'template based' and ASP is 'object based'?
An instructor was speaking to a group of our managers and he explained the
difference between CF and ASP as CF is 'template based' and ASP is 'object
based', therefore he prefers ASP because it is more sophisticated (and
because he has used it more). What exactly could he have meant by this?
Isn't ASP 'template based'? Aren't CF custom tags 'objects' in the sense
that he was referring to ASP's objects? And can't CF call the very same
objects that ASP calls? Did this instructor pass along misinformation or is
he just confused or am I confused? We are on the cusp of making a decision
to go with either CF or ASP and there's lots of hand wringing going on
around here . . . Thanks!
George
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