You can tell him that:
1- Java servlets are not a strictly Windows thing, so at any time they can
be moved to a platform not Windowsy. There is a version of the ASP for
Solaris, but then again - you'd have to purchase that program from a 3rd
party in addition to the MS app(s).
2- You don't need a whole lot to get a website built on servlets up and
running (just a webserver (which there are several for free and a lot of the
commercial ones already support servlets), the JDK 1.1 or 1.2, JSDK2.x (Java
Servlet Development Kit), and a place to put your .java/.class files). You
can also get into .jsp pages, or use FreeMaker or WebMacro, which are freely
available template languages that produce servlets.
3- There is a LOT of free Java classes out there which you can utilize
without having to build a bridge or embed within something else to use (ie:
there's GIF creation tools and even a GIFServlet which does exactly what
you're looking for).
4- There are many books (including the one mentioned by your boss - by
Jason Hunter) on servlets and many good examples on doing database/resource
pooling, load balancing, etc.
5- You can run servlets side-by-side with your existing MS only setup
6- It's just about free to do so!
... just to name a few
Plus, you can use a truly Object Oriented language with its benefits (ie:
code reuse!!) and if you ever want to deploy somewhere else, you can!
Erik Sahl
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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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