20.2. Advantages of JSP
JSP has a number of advantages over many of its alternatives. Here are a few of them.
Versus Active Server Pages (ASP) or ColdFusion
ASP is a competing technology from Microsoft. The advantages of JSP are twofold. First, the dynamic part is written in Java, not VBScript or another ASP-specific language, so it is more powerful and better suited to complex applications that require reusable components. Second, JSP is portable to other operating systems and Web servers; you aren't locked into Windows NT/2000 and IIS. You could make the same argument when comparing JSP to ColdFusion; with JSP you can use Java for the “real code” and are not tied to a particular server product.
Versus PHP
PHP is a free, open-source HTML-embedded ...
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