From: "Jeb Boniakowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The company I work for has done a lot of stuff with ASP and they want to use
> Java based technologies for all projects moving forward. One of the reasons
> is that they feel that their ASP code (which I've never worked on or seen)
> is completely unmaintainable and is write-only. New developers have a
> really hard time understanding it, and it's hard not to replicate code
> through many pages, making changes to that code really annoying. I don't
> know much about ASP, but this is something my boss told me about their ASP
> projects.
>
> jeb.
I'd have to agree with the comments from Jeb's boss. Apart from the obvious
lack of portability ASP does indeed tend to be really messy and unmaintainable.
I have seen an ASP site that was written in a very structured manner and it
was reasonably maintainable, but this is certainly not typical and in any case the
example was not overly complex.
The whole MVC argument has surely got to be your strongest argument. With ASP
you are stuck with the presentation and the logic in one messy lump. Turbine,
particularly when using the pull method is a really nice way out of this mess.
Of course with Turbine you also get a whole bunch of useful services that would
otherwise be a real challenge to assemble.
With Java based solutions you get all the niceties of OO based languages along
with other benefits such as great deployment options (I've never seen an ASP
app deploy as nicely as a war file).
You mentioned the web designer's use of applets. These are going to be more
difficult in the future as M$ are not going to include a JVM at all in WinXP.
Don't forget that M$ is also throwing away ASP for ASP+ - I can't claim
any particular knowledge, but it seems that ASP+ is more along the lines
of JSP whereby you end up with compiled code.
>From a learning and productivity perspective, Turbine wins hands down
over ASP.
Just some random thoughts. Hope they help.
BTW: I'm throwing away my ASP application and rewriting it using Turbine.
Scott
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