[thelist] Moving to JSP from ASP

[David Mitchell]

The main components you are going to need are J2SE SDK and Tomcat. It can
run on either Windows or Linux, we've had success both platforms with
Tomcat.

>From the database side Oracle is good, forget about Access for a serious web
application. You could also consider MySQL. MySQL and Java (using the
MySqlConnector/J library
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/3.1.html) is a smokin'
combination.

You can use Apache and hook it with Tomcat so that requests for non-JSP or
non-servlet files are served by Apache and requests for afformentioned file
types are redirected to Tomcat, but it's not absolutely necessary.

When you say email, I assume you mean sending email from your application?
There's JavaMail for that. Works great.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Warren Murray
Sent: October 5, 2004 9:01 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Moving to JSP from ASP

Good Day to All,

Listen, I'm working on possibly moving an application to JSP from ASP, but
I'm having a difficult time justifying it.  I'm also trying to figure out
are the necessary elements required to run JSP on a Windows or Linux
platform.

We are currently running the application:
Windows 2000 Professional
Server 5.0 IIS
ASP
Access (Database)
Oracle 10g (Instant Client)  

One of my reasons is cost because we want to have the flexibility to
increase the number of applications at a client site without increasing the
cost substantially.  What are some other reasons?

As I read up on JSP, I read that the required pieces to make JSP operational
is J2SE SDK and Jakarta/Tomcat.  My questions for this are:
Is that all I need?  If not, what else would I need?

Do I need Apache too?  

What can I use for email other than Server IIS 5.0?

Thanks!
 
Warren
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