Choosing JSP, ASP or ColdFusion or other?

[multiplex77]

Hi,

I have a very general question to ask all:

I have a large web application that my company plans to develop, involving lots of database queries, security concerns, and form inputs.

Which is the best language to develop in? ColdFusion, ASP, JSP or others (PERL, etc)?

Thanks for your opinion on this.

 

[Hattusas]

Well it is a question like what make of car sholud I buy?
Mercedes,BMW,Audi etc.

In order to upgrade a huge software you have to learn the new technology.Because the main problem is not to write codes.The main thing is to create the infrastructure.

If time is important the most logical thing could be the technology that you can handle most easily.

For example.We have been upgrading our project from java to J2EE.There are two basic reasons.I am an expert on java so it is easy to develop J2EE .Second J2EE could answer to all of our processes.

You should a make feasible study then decide later. Salih Sipahi
Software Engineer.
City of Istanbul Turkey
openyourmind77@yahoo.com

 

[multiplex77]

Thanks for your reply.

How about speed? I've got varying reports about ASP and JSP being slow. I've developed larger applications in CF and smaller ones in JSP. I found ColdFusion to be a little slow. JSP was also slow but only for the "first run".

But for large database-driven apps, is the speed and resource use significantly different between the three?

The greatest drawback for CF is that it is so expensive compared to ASP and JSP which are practically free (they are, right?)

What are the developer community help resources for the three (JSP, CF, and ASP)? I notice that the similar question I posted in the 3 forums returned the most replies from ColdFusion. Is this an accurate reflection of the dev community help available?

Thanks again!

Thanks again!

 

[Hattusas]

The reason why JSP is a little bit slower than other products,it works platform independent.That is to say when you create your own application in windows platform you can load it into Sun Solaris,Unix or other operating systems without modifying your product.
Also it is easy to develop in J2EE because there are many documents you can start. I started J2EE nearly 3-4 months ago I reached a reasonable level.At least I can develop applications without getting much help.
I have been using forums like

http://www.jguru.com,www.java.sun.com,books

published by WROX press,yahoo gropus etc.
Cold Fusion works well but it is expensive...

But I think soon there will be 3 rivals left in the platform
J2EE,Microsoft .NET and SAP.

One thing don't use ASP. Instead you can select J2EE or ASP.NET,.NET etc.

As a summary,If you use windows platform and you don't even think about changing it and you don't know java much;
Step 1 Learn OOP Object Oriented Programming.

Step 2 After step 1 research the 2 technologies.Then decide which one suits you.

Step 3 When deciding has finished, buy the books from famous presses like WROX,O'reilly etc.
Salih Sipahi
Software Engineer.
City of Istanbul Turkey
openyourmind77@yahoo.com