This is going to be me and C# vs Gaz and Rick with JSP.
Topics
- C# Namespaces vs JSPs whatever
- C# has namespaces, packages and classes
- A namespace can have 0 or more packages
- A namespace, like a package can contain 0 or more classes
- I dont really use packages much, I tend to just write a series of classes directly in the namespace
- How do they both handle sessions i.e. memory, file and database
- ASP.net lets you store in all three by changing a few options in your web.config file, obviously you have to configure the file or sql options a bit more.
- Since most applications I develop are aimed at small markets I tend to leave it set to memory. SQL sounds cool and adds another level of control of everything but I reckon the performance hit wouldnt be worth it for my current work.
- Deployability i.e. JSP needs a container but can run on lots of OS combos whereas C# doesnt need a container but can only be run on Windows out of the box
- Database Communications, data binding
- C# lets you communicate to almost any database using either premade components or via accessing the relevant sql classes.
- It doesnt let you bind objects to database rows like JSP (which is a pretty cool feature) but this kind of functionality can easily be programmed.
- Not all JSP setups support automatic binding anyway ;¬)
- Server compatibility i.e. apache, IIS etc
- ASP.net is designed to run on a Windows platform although you have a choice of server to use.
- The Obvious server has to be IIS
- You can also use Apache via the CLI[link3] project, I do this and havent really had any problems with it. One thing that is a bit funky is using page rewriting in .net but there are workarounds.
- For other operating systems there are projects like Mono[link4] which handle porting .net. Mono says it handles Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. Pretty cool eh?
- Not a question but a fact btw, developing in .net is FREE, using it in commercial projects is FREE, same goes for Direct X, its FREE. There seems to be a big misconception out there that you have to pay to use these SDKs. Their both available on the Microsoft site as free downloads.
- Graphics – C# has Direct X, openGL and GDI amongst others, JSP has what again?
- Hardware required i.e. .net runs ok any system that supports Windows / Windows CE which covers loads of handheld devices. This is even counting the hardware you could use when implementing a system like Mono.
- IDEs
- For writing C# classes I use the Free Microsoft C# Express ide. Its a cutdown version of Visual Studio 2005 that is specifically taylored for C#. Theres different editions for the different .net languges as well as SQL.
- There are other IDEs out there but I havent felt the need to switch as the C# Express IDE handles all my needs.
- The other "big" contender to Visual Studio is Borland C# Builder[link5], I'm not fond of its price tag though
- Screw IDEs, what about hand coding?
- Code by hand, I like writing the HTML and CSS with Crimson Editor and the relevant syntax highlighting files
- Tag interaction i.e. how you get/set tag data
- C# uses events, delegates and properties i.e. getters n setters
- File system interaction
- As long as the permissions and security options have been set correctly you can do pretty much anything
- Language updates i.e. .net has had 3 JSP has had more
- .net is on roughly its 3rd version now; v1, v1.1 and v2 so its still kinda a new kid on the block how
- Multimedia i.e. web cams, mics and cameras
- Can do it all since you can access various hardware interfaces via .net
- Can link them to graphics systems such as Direct X
- Security
- HTML form submissions
- File system protection
- Hack prevention
Ideas
- Do it via the comments form below
- Might do it via email, that way its already partially transcribed plus everyone can answer in their own time
- Also means we can all include demo code
Completed
- 17.06.06
- Buffed out questions
- 10.06.06
- Started picking questions
- decided to do it verbally and record it using my crappy old mp3 player/mic
- they both consented :¬)
[link2] http://www.davidmillington.net/pages/DevArticles
[link3] http://httpd.apache.planetmirror.com/cli/
[link4] http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
[link5] http://www.borland.com/us/products/csharpbuilder/index.html