> What do you guys think about the long-term importance of non-Java languages for
> JSP?
Indifferent, to be honest. The reason I use JSP is because of Java. If
wanted Basic or JavaScript, I'd use ASP. Probably.
It _is_ a good idea to support other languages - even if its never used,
its a handy thing to have available, but I think in the long run, its
not the point of JSP - JSP is designed as JAVA Server Pages, not as
"Any-language Server Pages" (oops :) ).
The main advantage of JSP, to me anyway, is that I can do almost
everything I could in ASP (I have 1.5 years of ASP under my belt, and <
1.5 months of JSP), but have the end result compiled (atleast to
bytecode), fast, and with the cool language 'extensions' (eg, exception
handling etc) that VBScript and JScript just dont do - and are unlikely
to do until at the earliest v5 (IIS5).
Other than that, the way I program the pages etc is pretty much
unchanged. Just I get to use JBuilder+CORBA, rather than VB6 and COM
(YUCK! - I was at an MSP, so sue me!). Nice to have a development system
that doesn't die on me every 10 mins or so.
Just my 2c.
Nic.
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