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Topic: General ASP questions

Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: General ASP questions
Date Posted: 09 June 2004 at 2:20pm

Whats the pros and cons of using JScript over VBScript?
Is it possible to run JScript applications with SQL Server database off a Mac OS 10 Server?
Is it possible to edit the session data created by the server client side?

Thanks for any enlightenment.

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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 09 June 2004 at 3:53pm

None really, opposite because most apps are made in VBScript
Not off a Mac OS 10 server, no
Nope

Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 09 June 2004 at 4:35pm

Server side, more asp sites are vbscript. Client side web apps tend to use javascript more than vbscript/DHTML because of better Browser support.
You can run JSP's off of a Mac OS10 server, but MSSQL Server runs under windows. IIRC, there is a MYSQL flavor available for Mac OS10.
Kinda no, but maybe yes. You don't have direct access from the client to the server-side session object, but you can set/get cookies.

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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 09 June 2004 at 10:32pm

To point one, it kinda depends if you are talking about server side or client side.
Client side IE is the only browser that does VBScript well, JScript has more support in pretty much all the browsers.
Serverside it depends on the technology. JScript is easier to interchange, as more technologies support it, if you stick with ASP, there is not the huge of a difference, just in syntax of course.

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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 14 June 2004 at 11:28am

Thanks,

What software would the Mac OS server need installed to run ASP JScript, and what MySQL database is supported by Mac OS 10 server?

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 2:57am

He is not talking about ASP/JScript... He was talking about JSP which is a differant thing all together

Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 3:36am

JSP = Java Server Pages - like ASP in the respect that you can write intermingled JSP code, HTML, and Javascript.

MYSQL downloads at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html - http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html

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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 8:13am

Anyone ever tried iASP?

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 11:16am

Hadn't even heard of it since your post!

Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 2:11pm

Apparently allows ASP to run off unix...

Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 2:28pm

Kind of like ChiliSoft?

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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 6:10pm

Correct me if i'm wrong but ChilliSoft was their own interpretation of ASP, I think iASP is the same as standard ASP. It's written in Java. It's got a test download thing so I'll give that a go.

Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 15 June 2004 at 10:18pm

Interseting product. Looks like it compiles into Java Byte Code. Like the 11 additional componets that line up with Server Objects ASP components. Also looks like it can run on a Mac OS X.

There's a lot of issues around using beans instead of servlets, but either way, I think that If I had to set up a j2ee evironment capable of handling either to run iASP, I'd just stick with JSP's and Java.

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