> You can get details about ASP+ at www.aspfree.com site.
> According to information provided , developer can use
> any lanuguage , this might be a advantage over JSP
According to the JSP specification, you can plug any language into JSP (like
ASP) providing it can handle exceptions properly. <%@ page language="blah"
%>
A few (not many) servlet-engines support this (resin, websphere) but it
probably won't be long until more follow this. There's an opensource project
by IBM called Bean Scripting Framework (BSF)
<http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/bsf/> which provides
an architecture for hooking pluggable scripting engines into (eg:
JavaScript, JPython, TCL, XSL/t, VBScript, etc). This architecture could be
plugged into JSP engines to provide such a platform for JSP developers.
Scripting languages are constantly being added to it.
The point of JSP is to abstract the page presentation (JSP) from logic
(servlets/beans/taglibs), but sometimes little bits of logic need to be
added to the page. Having to train html markuperers (made up word) in the
ways of Java seems a bit far fetched for this, and they would more likely be
much more comfortable with a language they're familiar with (eg:
javascript). Leave the Java for the logic developers.
If you're interested in using a non-java language in your JSP pages now,
jakarta have a bunch of 'proof-of-concept' taglibs which contain a BSF tag
allowing you to use other scripting languages in your JSPs
<http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/>.
-Joe Walnes
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