I suggest skipping both asp and jsp in favor of a real programming
language (Java) as described at http://virtualschool.edu/wap.
At 2:55 PM -1000 01/19/2001, Stephen Casey wrote:
>I've been an Oracle(PL/SQL) developer for the last 8 years and took up java in
>preparation of using Oracle 8i. I thought I would be able to call java stored
>procedures on UNIX from servlets running on NT ( I haven't pulled that one off
>yet). The idea being the heavy number crunching stuff would run faster on UNIX
>and I wouldn't slow down the NT web server. I have practically no experience
>writing web applications so I don't know if it will work or not. Now that I've
>spent a lot of time, money, and effort learning about java
>(servlets), I'm being
>confronted with, "I should use ASP instead of servlets".
>
>I've read all I can find in the archives and from what I can tell there isn't
>much difference between ASP and servlets aside from speed and
>portability. I've
>been told by a coworker that anything I do with servlets can be done
>with ASP. I
>don't know ASP. I don't want to change directions and learn ASP, VB script,
>etc., and am now having to defend the choice of java servlets.
>
>I like working with object oriented language. I think this makes my
>applications
>more flexible. Can anyone tell me what servlets can do that ASP can not? I'd
>like to hear from people who have experience with both.
>
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