also take a look at chapter 20 of Profession JSP by Wrox
"Case study: Porting ASP to JSP"
http://www.wrox.com/books/Book_Details.asp?isbn=1861003625§ion=&subject_id=&subject=
At 11:24 AM 11/13/00 -0500, you wrote:
>To you, and everybody else who gets involved with this type of process;
>
> Because of structural differences in many schemes between ASP/ASP+ and
>JSP/Servlets, it is impossible to create an efficient tool (or to procure
>one) in the current market! Although it would be a great product, nobody
>out there really knows ASP and JSP well enough to create some sort of
>conversion tool. Also, if such a tool were developed, it would be quite
>inefficient when it comes down to it.
> Let's put it this way: If it took the market 4 years to develop a
>quasi-sufficient ASP dev tool (which still does not really exist today),
>and there is still no
>remotely-close-to-sufficient-in-the-enterprise-environment JSP dev tool
>(which may take another 3-6 months, and then upgrades for updates to the
>standards), it is safe to assume that an ASP-to-JSP conversion tool would
>most likely than not be inefficient if procured within the next 4-8 months
>- ideally, we'd all love to create this, but the costs are serious.
>
> In the end, the best way is the right way: Learn BOTH, PROPERLY, and
>convert the source sections at a time. This takes time, but take the time
>now to do this, and in the end there will be less debugging necessary
>because you will CONSCIOUSLY know what changes were made (and such were
>documented). If you rush with automation, the QA specialist (assuming
>your production environment is organized enough to have a QA process),
>would get a heart attack.
>
> In the bonds, and getting JSP/Servlets under my M$-educated belt,
>
> nasser dassi
> software engineer/it developer
> nyu student senator
> nyu ice hockey
>
> "openmindedness rewards a lifetime." - nasser dassi
>
>
>On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, fau k wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > We developed the product in ASP and now we have to change this product into
> > JSP environment.
> >
> >
> > If any one involved in this type of projects, please help me I will
> > thankfull to u.
> >
> > My question are..
> >
> > How to convert this ASP code to JSP..
> >
> >
> > 1) Directely change the all ASP programs to JSP programs.
> >
> > 2) We have to do it from scratch( from begining like new development in
> > JSP)..
> >
> > 3) Is there any tools available to convert ASP to JSP.
> >
> >
> > We are using Ultradev as a jsp development tool, is it good tool in the
> > market.. If not which one is good..
> >
> > Please do needful.
> >
> >
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > Malla Reddy Choodi
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