First and foremost, make sure that your development is standards based and you can pretty much switch your environment at will. We currently run NT because that is the environment that our systems people prefer. As developers we are pretty neutral as long as the system is reliable. We were using Websphere 2.0x as our app server and IIS for our web server in our production environment but we recently switched to the Resin app server and IIS so that we could upgrade to JSP 1.x. We could easily switch to Unix and Apache and a different app server if it ever becomes necessary. We run 100% Java for our business logic and use JSP & HTML for presentation layer. There is nothing NT specific about what we do. We use MS-SQL and JDBC for our database connectivity, but again we are totally standards based and avoid anything platform specific like stored procedures--we also run under Oracle with the same business logic code. So my conclusion, be careful about the technologies that you use for your server environment and you won't get locked into any vendor. Then religious questions like NT vs. Unix or Oracle vs. MS become purely academic. You get to choose what works best and have the ability to switch if something better comes along. Avoid proprietary environments like ASP unless you really don't care if you are tied to Microsoft. Make sure that you use as much standard SQL as possible and not Oracle's PL-SQL unless you want to be tied to Oracle. Hope this helps. -----Original Message----- From: Alex Strasheim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 12:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: jsp and NT Changing the subject a little, what is your feeling about JSP on NT? Most of the Java people I know are hard core unix people, and they give me dire but vague warnings about mixing MS with Java. Right now I have a production ASP site that I'd like to port to JSP and Unix. If I could rewrite it a little bit at a time, and keep everything on the same server, it would be a lot easier than rebuilding the whole thing at once then flipping the switch. Once the site was all JSP, I could do whatever I wanted with it. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets
