Is it fair to say that JSP is to Tomcat as ASP is to ASP/VBScript & ASP/JScript?
From what I've been reading (actually just skimming over), the flow of web information can look something like this on Windows:
Web browser (IE) <--> web server (IIS) on Windows <--> ASP w/VBScript
That is, a web browser makes a request to IIS for foo.asp. IIS notices that it is a request for a .asp file and hands the request to the ASP engine. The ASP engine opens foo.asp and notices that the language is VBScript, and so uses the VBScript interpreter to generate HTML. The HTML data is handed to IIS and IIS sends the data to the web browser.
If you change the names, this is an equivalent FLOSS setup:
Web browser (FireFox) <--> web server (Apache) on Linux <--> Tomcat w/JSP (java)
Is that correct? Am I close?
If I am, can the analogy be extended? Specifically, ASP can handle VBScript and JScript (JavaScript) natively as well as perl and presumableyother languages with 3rd party plug-ins. Does Tomcat do more than just Java Server Pages?
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