Blake,
>>an MS shop top to bottom.
My sympathy goes out to you. <grin>
Sounds like you have a mindless boss that won't take anything more
than Microsoft. Develop the system in ASP and document every roadblock that
prevents you from doing what the system is required to do. For each
roadblock, if you had a sense of how it could be done and done better with
Java, JSP, Servlets, etc., include that in your documentation. Make sure
that your boss and as many other people as you can, see that documentation
before completion. Then when the users complain, and your manager complains
about your work, you can remind him and others about the deficiencies of the
M$ way and about THEIR decision to use deficient technologies. This is a
CYA application.
We had a consultant in that supposedly knew ASP and it still took
him three days to figure out how to get an HTML form to update the database.
I had to gently remind my coworkers that I have been updating databases with
HTML forms for the last 9 months.
Make sure you aren't the fall guy when the system fails.
- Tom
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> I program for the PSU College of Engineering, which is an MS shop top to
> bottom. I'm going to be programming a very large, entirely dynamic
> server-side application which will need to do things like image processing
> and writing GIFs back to the client. My boss wants to use ASP. Any
> suggestions on how I can talk him into servlets? He just wrote me, after
> reading WebReview's excerpt of Jason's book, saying that servlets are just
> "Java's implementation of ASP", so we might as well use ASP. Oy.
>
> Thanks,
> Blake
>
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