Re: My boss needs convincing..

[Thor HW]

Title: re: My boss needs convincing..

You are pretty funny (why people that don't check things, get sooo excited is beyond me), now for some enlightenment. .jsp is the standard extension for the BROADVISION server, out long befor JAVA Server Pages.  It uses Javascript, hence the .jsp extension for JavaScriptPages. .jsp is/was a common Oracle extension for JAVA Stored Procedures, out befor JAVA Server Pages.   I could map all my JAVA Server Pages (usually jsp) to .rtfm - short for RTFM!  .jsp is just another mapping in the webserver, and by convention is commonly mapped to JAVA Server Pages.  It doesn't have to be, and they weren't the first on the planet to use that extension either.   So, before teaching the wrong things to people that asks questions, and saying duh (good thing JAVA has reflection).  You could at least take the 30 seconds to read, verify, and then flame if incorrect.  Flaming on basic ignorance teaches no one anything.   Thor HW ----- Original Message ----- From: Bobby Kaushal To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 8:09 AM Subject: Re: My boss needs convincing.. Someone wrote as a reply that pages with the extenision .jsp is not necessarily a java server page, it's just a dynamically created page, all i have to say is: Whaaaat? Of course it's a java server page,  active server pages have the extension .asp and java server pages has .jsp as an extension..... Duh!!! And for what the initial email that the above reader responded to, there is no reason in this universe that anyone would want to use cgi instead of JSPs.  CGI is the worst technology that the internet was ever corrupted with.  It's so slow, it's the reason why E-Commerce sites looses a lot of business when customers click on the Submit button and they have to wait an hour before the transaction has completed, so they the users/clients just leave out of impatience. Also cgi is hacker prone.  I read on the Techweb site that a hacker can easily retrieve credit card information and so on on a web site that uses CGI.  Secondly it's so damn slow, thirdly, if you are part of an E-Commerce company or Consulting Firm, then if you tell you clients that you still use CGI, hehe,  then you can kiss them goodbye soon. Bobby Kaushal Programmer Analyst Webmaster Rule Number One When a potential employer/client asks you if you've ever worked with XYZ software running on platform ABC, say "yes" quickly and with great assurance. Then run home, fire up the Net, and figure out what the hell they were talking about.