Thanks for the response and info.  I know IBM's alphaworks has bunch
of formatting beans including a table bean.   I have not used them
yet, just sort of browsed them.

http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/home/current




---Archie Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I really don't know much about the differences and wish someone could
> outline them for me.  There have been a few messages on the group
list
> about the differences, but it's tough to weed out the religion from
the
> facts.  I think that JSP is likely cleaner, but ASP probably provides
> more features and is obviously faster moving.
>
> what I got from the asp site:
>
> platforms-java is platform independant, as long as you want to use
the
> java platform.  asp is a microsoft only thing, but supports languages
> other than java through some kind of interface to components, AND
has a
> few different flavors (name things like jscript, vbscripts and
> perlscript).  This is the biggest difference to me: java is a real
> programming language, while vbscript doesn't garner a lot of respect
> though it can access the internals of microsoft applications very
well.
>
> the look-they look fairly similar.  both have an evaluate tag that
looks
> like <%>.  Both have LOOP tags.  asp has FOR contsructs as well.
>
> format-asp has some libs for helping format numbers.  I don't really
> think this is a big deal since you can probably do it in java fairly
easily.
>
> "forms"-asp has libs for dealing with interpreting submissions of
forms.
> I don't know if JSP can do this, it probably has some way of dealing
with
> it, but I haven't seen them.
>
> compilation-jsp pre-compiles web pages.  I *think* asp interprets
them as
> they go through the server.
>
> http://www.activeserverpages.com/learn/core.asp
>
> On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, steve barrett wrote:
>
> > Hi, I don't know if others have asked you this, but could you be a
bit
> > more specific about the differences between ASP and JSP?  I am
coming
> > from pure Java background and have not yet had the opportunity to
try
> > ASP pages.
> >
> >
> > ---Archie Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Now my question is I want to duplicate the functionality of
asp by
> > Jsp. =
> > > > Is that possible? Does Jsp have all the functionalities,
functions
> > .. =
> > > > similar to that of an Asp. Can anyone help me in this regard.
> > >
> > > no.
> > >
> > >
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